The Boxer (1997)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Duration: 113 minuten
Country:
United States / Ireland
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson and Brian Cox
IMDb score:
7,0 (24.041)
Releasedate: 31 December 1997
The Boxer plot
"Love is always worth fighting for."
Danny and Maggie know what it feels like to live among violence. They live in Belfast where fighting has been going on for years between England and the independence fighters of Northern Ireland. After 14 years in prison, Danny returns to the neighborhood where he grew up. Maggie is now married and has a son from Danny's best friend. The years in prison have made him shy, he only feels at home in the boxing ring.
Actors and actresses
Danny Flynn
Joe Hamill
Maggie
Ike Weir
Harry
Joe Hamill's Aide
Matt MaGuire
Bride
Groom
Priest
Reviews & comments
Insignificance
-
- 3220 messages
- 5589 votes
A sad reality coupled with a sugary sweet drama thing without spikes. Not my cup of tea. It seems to be getting somewhere with the gray images, bathed in an icy glow, the threat of and within the IRA and Day-Lewis' reserved performance, but it soon gets bogged down in a leisurely sentimental get-together between Danny and Maggie and a course that is not much more than formulaic work, that keeps aiming at the sensitive string.
There is a trainer with a rebellious drunk and an obvious fate. The romance, including the sickening music, is not interesting at all, ditto for the bad man and the way Danny is portrayed, definitely gets out of hand in a boxing match against a Nigerian. We won't talk about Liam, the scenario does. A few times even. Even in the end Sheridan is too cowardly to lash out. Weak would be a compliment.
Translated from Dutch · View original
scorsese
-
- 13671 messages
- 11438 votes
Good film in which a boxer is released from prison after 14 years and returns to a still divided Ireland. A good story that starts a bit slow. Certainly a good film, but a lot less powerful than the previous collaboration between Jim Sheridan and Daniel Day-Lewis. Excellent acting with Daniel Day-Lewis in the lead.
Translated from Dutch · View original
Lovelyboy
-
- 4222 messages
- 3173 votes
Where Body of Evidence was a disappointment as an Easter weekend opener, I expected a bit more from this The Boxer, if only because of Daniel Day Lewis in combination with the name Jim Sheridan. Still, it didn't really work out for me and The Boxer was a small disappointment.
The story is clearly about boxer Danny Flynn, who is free again after so many years in an environment still torn by the aftermath of 'the troubles' and interference from the English. And the place is still full of tension, threat, hatred and envy amidst sadness and sometimes deplorable living conditions. In the background there are in turn quite a few parties who pull the strings, or want to, and want to deal with the occupier and the issues between Protestant and Catholic in their own way. Danny at least thinks his own way about that and has a different approach in mind with his fights and especially peace, consultation and forgiveness.
And that can be called interesting with a more than decent cast in the form of Lewis, Watson, Cox and especially McSorley who just like In the name of the father here also portrays such a nasty character. But despite the image towards the end that such a battle only has losers, The Boxer still regularly does not really want to captivate, there is a slow pace, not much happens and the feeling of the film does not really want to rub off on me. I am not writing off The Boxer yet and for the time being the film has ended up on the rewatch pile, but for now it remains at three stars.
Translated from Dutch · View original
Corporate & Media
Realtimes Network
Innovatieweg 20C
7007 CD, Doetinchem, Netherlands
+31(315)-764002
