War of the Buttons

War of the Buttons

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  • Genre(s): Family
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): John Roberts
  • Cast(s): Liam Cunningham, Colm Meaney, Ger Ryan, Gregg Fitzgerald, Helen OLeary See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 34min
  • Music: Rachel Portman
  • Award(s): Young Artist 1997 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Songs of Paradise
  • Story:

    The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, throwing stones and cutting off their opponents buttons etc. And sometimes they go to battle completely naked and exposed. In one such scene about 30 boys return from a battle to celebrate victory at a barn-house only to find some girls waiting for them and they get very embarrassed at losing their privacy

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7.4/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story

The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, throwing stones and cutting off their opponents buttons etc. And sometimes they go to battle completely naked and exposed. In one such scene about 30 boys return from a battle to celebrate victory at a barn-house only to find some girls waiting for them and they get very embarrassed at losing their privacy

Ratings

7.4/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Nominations
Young Artist Award

Best Family Feature Foreign | 1997

Best Performance in a Foreign Film | 1997 | Gregg

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

The parents of one of the boys in this film took a court action to prevent this film being released. The grounds for their action were that their son's naked buttocks could be seen in the film. the action was dismissed on the grounds that they (the buttocks) didn't appear on screen long enough to allow identification and also that the parents should have raised their objection before the scene was filmed.

Producer David Puttnam was so impressed by Liam Cunningham in this film that he recommended him to executive producer Philip David Segal for the Eighth Doctor in Doctor Who: The Movie (1996). Segal saw the film and was similarly impressed. For a while, Cunningham was seriously considered for the Doctor, but it eventually went to Paul McGann.

John Coffey, who plays Geronimo, later became the head coach of the Terenure College SCT.

Popular Dialogues

"Little Con: His willie, cut off his willie."

"[to Tim who's in a tree] Geronimo: You're gonna have to come down sometime. Tim: I'm gonna have to pee sometime and I know where I'll be aimin'. [the Carrick boys back away]"