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The Boxer (1997)

Sports Drama
Rated R
113 min.
Release Date
December 31, 1997
Director
Jim Sheridan
Writer
Jim Sheridan, Terry George
Cast
Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Daragh Donnelly, Frank Coughlan, Sean Kearns, Lorraine Pilkington, Niall Shanahan, John Wall, Maria McDermottroe
Running Time
113 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for language and some violence

A lullaby sung by a mother to her newborn drifts through an embattled village. Friends toast each other in clandestine meetings. Children play hide-and-seek among the rubble of deserted buildings. Neighbors in urban gang territory share backyard gossip. Lovers embrace on moonlit rooftops in brief respite from the violence below.

Wherever lives are played out under siege --- Sarajevo, Beirut, Somalia, South Central L.A. --- moments of joy seem all the more precious.

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