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, fighting and opening a boxing club training aspiring boxers. Maggie has since married Danny's best friend, who is also imprisoned for his I.R.A. activities. Although he has not denounced the I.R.A. or denigrated his I.R.A. colleagues, Danny has decided to live a life free of political violence. His boxing club is nonsectarian, open to both Catholics and Protestants. This move irks some of his old I.R.A. colleagues since they feel working with the Protestants will not resolve their David versus Goliath struggle. Danny's old I.R.A. colleagues, especially their unofficial leader Harry, resort to traditional tactics of violence to stop Danny. Maggie's father, Joe, also an I.R.A. activist, ...
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Daniel Day-Lewis boxed and trained for three years in preparation for this role.
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Although set in Belfast, the film was almost exclusively shot in the run-down docklands and Sheriff Street area of Dublin's North Inner City. The flat complex used in the film was earmarked for demolition but this was postponed until filming was completed. Since then the entire area has been redeveloped and now contains several multinational company headquarters, a college, hotels, up-market restaurants, a rail station and million dollar apartments.
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Barry McGuigan who was coaching (Daniel Day Lewis' for two years to prepare him for the boxing scenes in the film, and who was a regular commentator at fights all over the country was familiar with the form of most boxers, said the actor was so good and so serious about his training that he could easily have contested real boxing matches against the leading fighters in his weight class at the time.
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The boxing match in the film, complete with the unusual result, was based on an actual bout.
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Eddie Carroll is the name of an actual Canadian hall-of-fame welterweight boxer who fought in the '30s and '40s.
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The cut above Danny's left eye disappears in some scenes.
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After the ring is set-up and Flynn is shown training in it, the next scene has him and his manager under the stage with the ring in the background being not set-up. Two scenes later, the ring is back up.
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In one of the early scenes when Danny meets and talks to Maggie, she slaps him on the lefts side of his face. It was a very weak slap yet he gets a bad nose-bleed - from the right nostril. In the boxing sequences when his face is pummeled, there is less blood.
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During the televised boxing match in Londonderry, no TV cameras areseen around the ring area.
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