"Director: Peter Sheridan"

• Borstal Boy | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £4.29   |  Saving you £11.70 (272.73%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Borstal Boy stars Shawn Hatosy as Brendan Behan a sixteen year-old republican who is sent on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended charged and imprisoned in Borstal a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia England. At Borstal Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he perceived as the enemy a confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing.