The Boxer

Drama, Romance

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Jim Sheridan

Status Released

Release Date 1997-12-31

Storyline

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."