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Boy Soldier

1987 • 1h39m Drama

Popularity

3

A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following a tragic incident during a violent clash with some of the local agitators. The Guardian proposed that "if Spielberg's ET, in the immortal words of Pauline Kael, was a bliss out, Karl Francis' 'Boy Soldier' is a bleed out for sheer fist shaking emotionalism, it would be hard to find another British film of recent years to beat it."

Details

Director

Karl Francis

Screenplay

Karl Francis

Cast

Richard Lynch

Emer Gillespie

Bernard Hill

Release date

1/30/1987

Status

Released

Budget

$1,113,537

Origin country

GB