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.

• Universal Pictures
• Hell's Kitchen
• Daniel Day-Lewis
• Emily Watson
• Brian Cox
• Ken Stott
• Gerard McSorley
• David Hayman
• Kenneth Cranham
• Lorraine Pilkington