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The Boxer [DVD] [1998]
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Suitable for 15 years and over
4 Front Video
Release date: Monday 7th of February 2005
Starring: Frank Coughlan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Kearns, Daragh Donnelly, Lorraine Pilkington, £5.99 On the DVD: Generous extras include commentaries from producer Arthur Lappin, who offers a tourist's guide to various locations, as well as one from director Jim Sheridan, who offers technical info and remarks drily of a brief, tart exchange between Maggie and Flynn, "This is an Irish love scene". There's also an alternative (though not that alternative) ending, extra scenes which probably deserved to stay on the cutting room floor and, most illuminatingly, a featurette on the movie. This reveals that the career of Barry McGuigan (boxing advisor here) provided Sheridan with the impetus to make The Boxer, inspired by the courage and grace he showed in the ring to rise above partisanship. --David Stubbs Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Director Jim Sheridan links up once more with Daniel Day-Lewis for 1997's The Boxer, a study of a violent Belfast's uneasy crossover into the peace process (they had previously worked on My Left Foot among other films). Day-Lewis stars as Danny Flynn, imprisoned in his late teens for terrorism, now out after 14 years. A once promising boxer, he's initially looking to resume what's left of his career. However, his rekindled love for Maggie (Emily Watson), daughter of local IRA boss (Brian Cox), is coupled with a need to be a part of the healing process in Northern Ireland. With the help of his former trainer (Ken Stott), he reopens a non-sectarian gym. However, the non-pacific wing of the IRA, personified by Gerard McSorley, resents Flynn, not least for consorting with Maggie, who is another IRA prisoner's wife. Day-Lewis plays Flynn as an almost spiritual figure, still caught in the introspection that enshrouded him during his years in jail. Ironically, the well-executed boxing scenes provide a respite from the air of serious violence that pervades the rest of the film, symbolised by the ominous rotorblades of the ever-present helicopters, from which much of the action of this sad, yet gripping and ultimately uplifting movie, is shot.
On the road to peace there may some obstacles
Review date: 2005-06-15 Rating: 10 out of 10
We all know what happened and is happening in Ireland, I mean Northern Ireland. The film assumes we know and we are on the side of the Irish Catholics who are trying to get out of the war because there is no real solution in the war, but also, though with less emphasis, on the side of the Protestants who know that time is just playing against their majority which will be a forgotten illusion within a few years and then the reversal of majorities would be the bitterest and direst catastrophe for these very Protestants. A peaceful negociated solution must be found. But the film looks at the problem, at the Good Friday Agreement through the eyes of persons, of individuals, both Catholics who have political or military power and Catholics who are just plain simple ordinary men, women or children. At the top level some cleansing is necessary, some military leaders who do not want to undestand that the political leaders must always have the last word and the last decision, have to be eliminated or neutralized. That is not very easy nor comfortable nor clean. At the bottom level, the emotions and feelings and sentiments of simple people are both pathetic because of their powerlessness, and admirable because of their total commitment to their fulfilment. I love him or her and I will love him or her no matter who says I should not and no matter what it may cost me. Thus the film becomes universal and speaks of all social and civil wars with the participation of some foreign troops. The precise civil and social cause is demultiplied by the national sentiment that is provoked on one side by what they consider as an invasion and an occupation. The film is admirable in its reserve and moderation : it shows the situations, the passions of all these people but it keeps some dignity even in cases when butchery would be a better word for assassination. And more than ten years later the situation has not yet come to an agreed upon and duly negociated settlement. History is so slow at times.
The Boxer [DVD] [1998] Reviews
powerful,gritty, touching drama
Review date: 2000-11-27 Rating: 10 out of 10
emily watson and daniel day lewis as always deliver first class performances. this is a powerful love story of epic stuggle and trgic beauty. thoroghly enjoyable and emotionally charged.
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Actor(s):
Frank Coughlan
To find out more about Frank Coughlan click on their nameDaniel Day-Lewis
To find out more about Daniel Day-Lewis click on their nameSean Kearns
To find out more about Sean Kearns click on their nameDaragh Donnelly
To find out more about Daragh Donnelly click on their nameLorraine Pilkington
To find out more about Lorraine Pilkington click on their nameCreators:
Daniel Day-Lewis (Primary Contributor)
Daragh Donnelly (Primary Contributor)
Chris Menges (Cinematographer)
Jim Sheridan (Producer)
Jim Sheridan (Writer)
Clive Barrett (Editor)
Arthur Lappin (Producer)
Nye Heron (Producer)
Terry George (Writer)
Recording label: 4 Front Video
Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
EAN: 5035822012448
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Colour, PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 2005-02-07
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 109 minutes
