War of the Buttons
(1994)
Country: UK
Genre: Drama
Synopsis
Rival gangs of young Irish kids enjoin in constantly escalating battles that ultimately entails the removal of the buttons from the clothes of captured losers. While the shenanigans cause obvious problems, the two leaders of the groups nonetheless develop a grudging admiration of the other and an estranged friendship.Remake of the 1962 French movie 'La Guerre des boutons".
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Cast
- Gregg Fitzgerald
(Fergus) - John Coffey
(Geronimo) - Anthony Cunningham
(Little Con) - John Crowley
(Pat) - Thomas Kavanagh
(Riley) - Darragh Naughton
(Boffin) - Gerard Kearney
(Big Con) - Kevin O'Malley
(Fishy) - Brendan McNamara
(Tim) - John Cleere
(Peter) - Stuart Dannell-Foran
(Tich) - Eveanna Ryan
- Colm Meaney
- Johnny Murphy
- Liam Cunningham
- Danielle Tuite
BoyActors Reviews
13 member reviews/ratings for this Movie
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West Cork will never be the same. West Cork is in Ireland and so am puzzled as to why the Union Jack was placed beside it.
My Movie Rating:
7 / 10 10 / 10 This is my favorite version of this classic French tale.
My Movie Rating: 7 / 10 A well made film with humour and pathos and the director managing to achieve almost the impossible these days, or in 1994 for that matter - getting boys to run about in their birthday suits. The scene with the battle at the castle was very well done, something that was missing from the French original. Plenty of action with plenty of boys though this time with the inevitable intervention of some girls. Ah well.
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I really loved this. The actors were very charismatic. Some scenes would provoke moral spasms now - such has civilisation been sacrificed to hysterics since the early 90s. Am I the only one to see something a little homoerotic in Geronimo's relationship to Fergus? Probably.