The Boxer (1997)
Directed by Jim Sheridan
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.
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I keep wanting to call David O. Russell’s “The Fighter” by the name of another movie, Jim Sheridan’s 1997 “The Boxer.”
Some manage to be great ("Rocky," "Raging Bull") and others fairly good ("The Boxer," "Rocky Balboa"), but most range from mediocre to awful or, maybe worse yet, instantly forgettable.