War of the Buttons (1994)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.2/10   

Director:

John Roberts

Escritores:

Louis Pergaud (novel)
Colin Welland (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

29 septiembre 1995 (USA)

Género:

Aventura | Drama | Familia

Frase comercial:

Most wars last years. This one has to be over by dinner.

Plot:

The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents...

Plot Keywords:

Buttons | Underage Drinking | Dressing | Profanity | Remake

Premios:

2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

warm, lovely little film

Reparto

Gregg Fitzgerald	...	Fergus
Gerard Kearney	...	Big Con
Darragh Naughton	...	Boffin
Brendan McNamara	...	Tim
Kevin O'Malley	...	Fishy
John Cleere	...	Peter
Anthony Cunningham	...	Little Con
Thomas Kavanagh	...	Riley
Eveanna Ryan	...	Marie
John Crowley	...	Pat
Stuart Dannell-Foran	...	Tich
Danielle Tuite	...	Fionnuala
Helen O'Leary	...	Helen
Yvonne McNamara	...	Maeve
John Coffey	...	Geronimo

También conocida como:

La guerre des boutons, ça recommence (France)
La guerra de los botones (Argentina) (video title) [es]

Duración:

94 min

País:

UK | France | Japan

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Australia:PG | Argentina:13 | Germany:12 | Portugal:M/6 | USA:PG | UK:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Castletownshend, County Cork, Ireland

Compañía:

Enigma Productions

Trivialidades:

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.

Errores:

Continuidad: When the boys go to vandalize the church, they take off their shoes. When they are almost caught and the boy with the eggs goes out, he has his shoes on. After he comes out of the house they're off again.

Citas:

School Master: By the way, what was the joke back there, I could do with a laugh?
Fergus: I messed up my clothes a bit last night, and my mammy, said she'd send me to school bare-assed.
School Master: I find that prospect more horrifying than amusing.
Fergus: Yes sir, but its just given me a funny idea.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Game-On: (#3.2)" (1998)

warm, lovely little film

WAR OF THE BUTTONS is a warm film that exudes a wonder and zest seldom seen in even so-called family films. The parable-like movie concerns a feud between two factions of boys in an Irish village, the trophies of war being the buttons the boys cut from captured enemies' clothing. As the battles grow, we see how the rivalry goes back even further than the boys, to their parents' childhoods. Nothing heavy-handed or profound, but a perceptive view of childhood with a great lesson gently imparted. See it!