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Release Date: 1994

Cast: Brendan McNamara, Liam Cunningham, Colm Meaney, Dervla Kirwan, Jack Coffey, Gregg Fitzgerald

War of the Buttons is a 1994 Irish film directed by John Roberts, about two rival kid gangs in Ireland, the Ballys (poor), and the Carricks (rich). The setting is County Cork, where it was filmed on location. Although the film is usually classed as a drama, the tone that it chooses is frequently light and comedic, and it examines issues of war, the actions and consequences that it always carries, and how it can divide and oppose people that can be friends as easily as they can be enemies. The film is based on a 1912 French novel by Louis Pergaud, that was filmed in 1961 and originally... MORE

War of the Buttons is a 1994 Irish film directed by John Roberts, about two rival kid gangs in Ireland, the Ballys (poor), and the Carricks (rich). The setting is County Cork, where it was filmed on location. Although the film is usually classed as a drama, the tone that it chooses is frequently light and comedic, and it examines issues of war, the actions and consequences that it always carries, and how it can divide and oppose people that can be friends as easily as they can be enemies. The film is based on a 1912 French novel by Louis Pergaud, that was filmed in 1961 and originally brought to the screen in 1962, in the French film directed by Yves Robert La Guerre des boutons. In the centre of the bridge over the river which separates the Irish villages of Carrickdowse and Ballydowse is a white line that few young people dare cross. That's because the youths of the two towns spend most of their time trying to one-up the other, whether it's over the sale of hospital raffle tickets or something more important, such as deciding who's a "tosspot" and who isn't, or, for that matter, defining what a tosspot is. This War of the Buttons has been going on as long as any of the youths can LESS