Release Date | 1987-01-30 |
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Runtime | 99 minutes |
Genres | Drama |
Stars | Richard Lynch, Emer Gillespie, Bernard Hill, Dafydd Hywel, Simon Coady |
Directors | Karl Francis, Karl Francis |
A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following a tragic incident during a violent clash with some of the local agitators. The Guardian proposed that "if Spielberg's ET, in the immortal words of Pauline Kael, was a bliss out, Karl Francis' 'Boy Soldier' is a bleed out for sheer fist shaking emotionalism, it would be hard to find another British film of recent years to beat it."