The Boxer(1997)

movie - first aired/released 1997-12-31 - 114 min - audience 6.7

Drama, Romance

Directed by Jim Sheridan

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.