War of the Buttons (1994)

Directors

John Roberts

Cast

Colm Meaney, Johnny Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Gregg Fitzgerald, Eveanna Ryan, Thomas Kavanagh, John Coffey, Paul Batt, Helen O'Leary

The story

In Ireland in the 1960s, more precisely the centre of the bridge over the river that separates the Irish villages of Carrickdowse and Ballydowse, there is a white line that few young people dare cross. The boys of each village spend most of their time trying to upstage the other, whether over the sale of hospital raffle tickets, or something more important, such as deciding who is a "tosspot" and who is not, or, for that matter, defining "tosspot". This "War of the Buttons", in which the buttons from the enemies clothes are captured, has gone on as long as the youths can remember, and "to the death", though rarely does either group hurt…

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