War of the Buttons

(1994)

★ 7 IMDb · 127 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Adventure, Family

Year: 1994

Runtime: 94 мин

Country: France, Japan

Director: John Roberts

Cast: Лиам Каннингем, Колм Мини, Ger Ryan, Gregg Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, Darragh Naughton, Brendan McNamara, Kevin O'Malley, John Cleere, Anthony Cunnigham

Plot

War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.

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.