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The Boxer
1997
· Movie
· 114 min
B
MEANRANK
73/100
Every rating
70–80
out of 100
Everyone agrees
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 70, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 80.
See the most agreed on films →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.
Details
- Director
- Jim Sheridan
- Writers
- Jim Sheridan, Terry George
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Hell's Kitchen
- Released
- 31 December 1997
- Country
- Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $16.5M
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