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The Boxer is a 1997
1997 in film

The year 1997 in film involved some significant events....
 film by Irish
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
 Jim Sheridan
Jim Sheridan

Jim Sheridan is an Republic of Ireland film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for My Left Foot , In the Name of the Father , and In America....
. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an England actor who also became an Republic of Ireland citizen in 1993. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four films since 1997, with as many as five years between roles....
 and Emily Watson
Emily Watson

Emily Anita Watson is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, Screen Actors Guild Award-winning English actress. She made an acclaimed debut film performance in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves....
, the film center's on the life of a boxer
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 and former Provisional IRA Volunteer, Danny Flynn, played by Lewis, who has just been released from prison. He attempts to "go straight", starting a boxing club for young people in his neighborhood and trying to reconnect with an old flame, played by Watson, but his past always seems to be catching up with him.

film made $5.896.037 in the United states.






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The Boxer is a 1997
1997 in film

The year 1997 in film involved some significant events....
 film by Irish
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
 Jim Sheridan
Jim Sheridan

Jim Sheridan is an Republic of Ireland film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for My Left Foot , In the Name of the Father , and In America....
. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an England actor who also became an Republic of Ireland citizen in 1993. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four films since 1997, with as many as five years between roles....
 and Emily Watson
Emily Watson

Emily Anita Watson is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, Screen Actors Guild Award-winning English actress. She made an acclaimed debut film performance in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves....
, the film center's on the life of a boxer
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 and former Provisional IRA Volunteer, Danny Flynn, played by Lewis, who has just been released from prison. He attempts to "go straight", starting a boxing club for young people in his neighborhood and trying to reconnect with an old flame, played by Watson, but his past always seems to be catching up with him.

Cast

  • Daniel Day-Lewis
    Daniel Day-Lewis

    Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an England actor who also became an Republic of Ireland citizen in 1993. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four films since 1997, with as many as five years between roles....
     as Danny Flynn
  • Emily Watson
    Emily Watson

    Emily Anita Watson is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, Screen Actors Guild Award-winning English actress. She made an acclaimed debut film performance in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves....
     as Maggie
  • Brian Cox
    Brian Cox

    Brian Denis Cox, Order of the British Empire is a BAFTA- and Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated Scotland actor....
     as Joe Hamill
  • Ken Stott
    Ken Stott

    Kenneth Campbell Stott is a Scotland actor, particularly known in the United Kingdom for his many roles in television....
     as Ike Weir
  • Gerard McSorley
    Gerard McSorley

    Gerard McSorley is a character actor for theatre, television and film.He was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and is a descendant of John McSorley, founder of McSorley's Old Ale House, the oldest Irish tavern in New York....
     as Harry

Box office performance

The film made $5.896.037 in the United states.

Critical reception

Reviews of the release in 1997 were generally positive—the review aggregating website Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films. The name derives from the historical clich? of throwing tomatoes and other produce at stage performers if a performance was particularly bad....
 reporting that 75% of the reviews that they tallied were positive.

Awards

The Boxer was nominated for three Golden Globes in the Picture, Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Director (Jim Sheridan) categories.

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