War of the Buttons

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-09-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, France, Japan

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (2999 Reviews)

Director:

John Roberts

Genres:

Adventure Drama Family

Cast:

Gregg Fitzgerald Gerard Kearney Darragh Naughton Brendan McNamara

Writer:

Louis Pergaud (novel)

Colin Welland (adapted for the screen by)

Yves Robert (based on: the film: La Guerre Des Boutons" by)

Fullplot:

The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces, belts and braces of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, wilding sticks and catapults and cutting off their opponents buttons etc. Once they go to battle completely naked. In one such scene about 30 naked boys are chasing boys from the other village to the lake only to find some girls waiting for them and they get very embarrassed.

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