The Boxer
Love is always worth fighting for.
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.
- Year: 1997
- Country: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Studio: Universal Pictures, Hell's Kitchen
- Keyword: prison, sports, politics, boxer, love
- Director: Jim Sheridan
- Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley, David Hayman