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Song For A Raggy Boy 97 minutes, Ireland/UK/Denmark/Spain (2003), 15
Average user rating (4.8 / 11 votes)

Aidan Quinn is the idealistic new teacher at an abuse-ridden Catholic Reform School in 1939 Ireland. Edgy drama based on a true story

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Song For A Raggy Boy: Whenever a Catholic priest appears on the cinema screen, it's only a matter of time before he's revealed as (a) a genteel, comic character, or (b) an abusive fire-and-brimstone tyrant. Song For A Raggy Boy exemplifies the latter, thanks to Iain Glen's astonishingly oily performance as Brother John, prefect of St Jude's Reform School...
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