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29 September 1995 (USA)
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Most wars last years. This one has to be over by dinner.
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The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents...
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2 nominations
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warm, lovely little film
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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 |
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La guerre des boutons, ça recommence (France)
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94 min
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Colour (Technicolor)
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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.
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Continuity: 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.
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Referenced in "Game-On: (#3.2)" (1998)
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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!