War of the Buttons
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
Released: 1994
Genre:
Family
Casts:
Liam Cunningham, Colm Meaney, Ger Ryan, Gregg Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, Darragh Naughton, Brendan McNamara, Kevin O'Malley, John Cleere, Anthony Cunnigham, Thomas Kavanagh, Eveanna Ryan, John Crowley, Stuart Dannell Foran, Danielle Tuite, Helen O'Leary, Yvonne McNamara, John Coffey, Paul Batt, Karl Byrne, Barry Walsh, Niall Collins, Derek O'Leary, Rory White, Johnny Murphy, Bairbre Dowling, Alan Devlin, Brid McCarthy, Pat Laffan, Ruth Hegarty, Jim Bartley, John Olohan, Frank Kelly, Martin Dunne, Andrew Goyvaerts, Frank Grimes, Declan Mulholland, Maureen Bennett, Dervla Kirwan