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Synopsis: The children of Ballydowse & Carrickdowse engage in battles in which they cut off the buttons, shoe-laces, belts and braces of their captured opponents. This gets their opponents in trouble with parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, wielding sticks & slingshots. It's a battle of strategic skills for the opposing leaders, Including one scene in which the principal gang uses an ancient war trick to overcome their opponents with successful and itchy results.

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family

Director(s): John Roberts

Actors: Gregg Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, Darragh Naughton, Brendan McNamara

Production: Warner Home Video

2 nominations.


IMDB:: 7.5

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: PG
Year:: 1994
: 94 min
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Hey, lads, I think I feel a bit woozy.
- Bad luck.
- (They laugh)
- Oh!
- Take cover!
That`s right, hide why don`t you?
Don`t show your ugly mugs,
the shock would sink our boat.
- What`s your problem, tosspot?
- We haven`t got a problem.
Have you finished scrubbing the paint
- from the old chapel board?
- (All laugh)
Scrubbin`? What would yous know about
scrubbin`, you dirty bunch of knackers?
(All laugh)
Does yer mammy still wash her knickers
in the kitchen sink?
She doesn`t have a kitchen sink.
Come on up to Carrickdowse,
we`ll lend you a bath.
A bath? Does it have
your rubber ducky in it, Gorilla?
(Laughter)
Does your mammy still powder your bum,
ya big girl`s blouse?
- (All laugh)
- You wait!
- Gorilla`s got a boulder.
- He hasn`t got the guts.
- Yeah?
- Oh!
(All cheer)
Get us out of here, quick.
(All shouting and jeering)
(Makes clucking noises)
Tomorrow, after school,
at Murphy`s Dunes.
You die. D`you hear?
The whole flamin` lot of you.
(Jeering, clucking sounds)
Chicken! Chickens!
Sir`s coming.
Sir, those are our toilets.
Is that so?
(Running water)
(Gorilla) Two, four, six, eight,
who`s the pillocks that we hate?
(All) Ballys, Ballys, Ballys!
(Gorilla) Two, four, five, six,
who`s the boys that`s got `em licked?
(All) Carricks, Carricks, Carricks!
(Gorilla) Two, four, six, eight,
who`s the pillocks that we hate?
(All) Ballys, Ballys, Ballys!
(Gorilla) Two, four, five, six,
who`s the boys that`s got `em licked?
(All) Carricks, Carricks, Carricks!
(Gorilla) Two, four, six, eight,
who`s the pillocks that we hate?
(All) Ballys, Ballys, Ballys!
(Gorilla) Two, four, five, six,
who`s the boys that`s got `em licked?
(All) Carricks, Carricks, Carricks!
(Gorilla) Two, four, six, eight,
who`s the pillocks that we hate?
(All) Ballys, Ballys, Ballys!
(All cheer)
- Is that it?
- Is that the best you can do?
Where`s your mates?
I thought you came for a fight.
Maybe their mammies
wouldn`t let them out.
Who rattled your cage, Gorilla?
What`s up,
haven`t you had your bananas yet?
Well, chew on these
and shut your face.
Big boy now, eh?
You weren`t so full of lip on the bridge.
- Ah, belt up, monkey.
- Belt up?
Wait till I get down there,
l`ll flatten you!
Watch it, it`s a trap.
- You`re full of crap, apehead.
- Get back up your tree, Gorilla.
- Monkey, monkey, monkey.
- (Monkey noises)
I`ll kill you, l`ll kill you!
- Gorilla, get back! D`you hear me?
- l`ll kill you, l`ll kill you!
I`ll kill you!
Come on!
(Gorilla) l`ll tear your heads off.
Wait till I catch you, you`ll die!
- Now!
- Argh!
Come on!
- Charge!
- (Shouting)
Come on, get outta here.
Come on, get back, get up the hill.

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Louis Pergaud

Louis Pergaud (22 January 1882 – 8 April 1915) was a French writer and soldier, whose principal works were known as "Animal Stories" due to his featuring animals of the Franche-Comté in lead roles. His most notable work was the novel La Guerre des boutons (1912) (English: The War of the Buttons). It has been reprinted more than 30 times, and is included on the French high-school curriculum.A schoolteacher by profession, Pergaud came into conflict with Roman Catholic authorities over the implementation of the Third French Republic's separation of Church and State enacted in 1905. In 1907 Pergaud chose to move to Paris to pursue his literary career. Pergaud's prose works are often considered to reflect the influences of Realist, Decadent and Symbolist movements. He was killed at age 33 in April 1915, by French fire while in a field hospital behind German lines; he was serving with the French Army near Marchéville-en-Woëvre during the First World War. The War of the Buttons has been adapted five times as a film, four times in French productions and once in an Irish one. It was adapted most recently in France in two films released the same week in September 2011. Both were set during the twentieth century. more…

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