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Boy A

(99 mins)

Programme Details

Boy A

Date:

2007

Expires:

in 2 hours

Categories:

Drama

Cast & Crew

Andrew Garfield (actor)
Peter Mullan (actor)

Guidance

Very strong language, violence and scenes that some viewers may find disturbing

About this programme:

Based on the award-winning novel by Jonathan Trigell, Boy A is a powerful coming-of-age drama that raises difficult questions about modern day morality. Andrew Garfield stars as Jack, a young man who has spent most of his life in institutions paying for a terrible crime he committed as a minor. At 24 years of age, he is released into an unrecognisable adult world with a new name, a new job - a new life. Only his case worker, played by Peter Mullan, knows his true identity. Anonymity is both a blessing and a curse as Jack, desperate to rebuild his life and seize this second chance, has to contend with being unable to tell the people he gets to know, and love, about his real past and the monstrous secret he keeps hidden. Boy A reunites award-winning director John Crowley with writer Mark O'Rowe, who debuted to great acclaim with the 2003 film Intermission, starring Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy.

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