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.

"Love is always worth fighting for."

Credits

Jim SheridanDirector

Daniel Day-LewisDanny Flynn

Emily WatsonMaggie Hamill

Brian CoxJoe Hamill

Ken StottIke Weir