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Borstal Boy

Drama

6.2 NR1 hour 28 mins

Based on Irish poet Brendan Behan's experiences in a reform school in 1942. A 16 year-old Irish republican terrorist arrives on the ferry at Liverpool and is arrested for possession of explosives. He is imprisoned in a Borstal in East Anglia, where he is forced to live with his would-be enemies, an experience that profoundly changes his life.

Keywords

homophobia bullying liverpool, england coming of age cross dressing accidental death ira (irish republican army)based on memoir or autobiography teenage boy reform school norfolk 1940s borstal gay theme gay teenager

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