Posts Tagged ‘rugby’

Borstal Boy (2000)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Hatosy, Shawn | Dyer, Danny | Ingleby, Lee | Laing, Robin | Birthistle, Eva | York, Michael | Huberman, Mark | Byrne, Jim | Deady, Garret | Donohue, Darren | Drew, Ronnie | Fitzpatrick, William | Griffin, Luke | Hanly, Trevor | Hassel, Lukas
Directors: Sheridan, Peter
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Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. At Borstal, Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he perceived as “the enemy,” a confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing. Events take an unexpected turn and Brendan is thrown into a complete spin. In the emotional vortex, he finally faces up to the truth.

Alive (1993)

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hawke, Ethan | Spano, Vincent | Hamilton, Josh | Ramsay, Bruce | Newton, John | Kriegel, David | Breznahan, Kevin | Behrens, Sam | Douglas, Illeana | Noseworthy, Jack | Meoli, Christian J. | Carpenter, Jake | DeLorenzo, Michael | Zúñiga, José | Nucci, Danny
Directors: Marshall, Frank
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The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team’s plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold. The only thing the team has riding on after losing so many of their good friends and family members is the slim chance of making it through alive and their faithfulness to God.

Evelyn (2002)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Vavasseur, Sophie | Beagan, Niall | McDonagh, Hugh | Brosnan, Pierce | Devlin, Mairead | Kelly, Frank | Mullan, Claire | Lucchesi, Alvaro | Keogh, Garrett | O'Suilleabhain, Daithi | Irvine, Andrea | Quinn, Marian | Ardiff, Karen | Margulies, Julianna | Hogan, Bosco
Directors: Beresford, Bruce
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Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.