The Boxer
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.
- Released
- 31 December 1997
- Directed by
- Jim Sheridan
- Starring
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox
- With
- Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley, Kenneth Cranham, Lorraine Pilkington, Tom Bell, Kirsten Sheridan, Paul Ronan, David Hayman, Ian McElhinney
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
- Distributor
- Universal Pictures, Netflix
- Countries
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
- Running time
- 113 minutes (1 hr 53 min)