Lamb (1985)

Directors

Colin Gregg

Cast

Andrew Pickering, David Gorry, Denis Carey, Dudley Sutton, Eileen Kennally, Frances Tomelty, Harry Towb, Hugh O'Conor, Ian Bannen, Ian McElhinney, Liam Neeson, Lorna Ellis, Nigel Humphreys, Ronan Wilmot, Stuart O'Connor

The story

Brother Sebastian is a young Christian Brother who works in a Roman Catholic borstal on the west coast of northern Ireland, referred to as "a finishing school for the sons of the Idle Poor" by its head, Brother Benedict. There, the Brothers teach boys to conform in a harsh, uncompromising regime which Brother Sebastian, whose real name is Michael Lamb, finds deeply distasteful. The Brothers teach the boys "a little of God and a lot of fear." When his father dies, leaving him a small legacy, the tie which kept him at the home is gone and he decides to leave and take Owen Kane, a bullied, unhappy 10-year-old boy with him.

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