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The Boxer

Release Date:December 31, 1997

Running Time:114 min

Genres:Drama, Romance

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Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis Emily Watson Brian Cox Ken Stott Gerard McSorley David Hayman Kenneth Cranham Lorraine Pilkington Niall Shanahan John Wall Maria McDermottroe Eleanor Methven

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer.

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