War Of The Buttons - Region 2

This 1994 Irish classic is a great movie for all the family.Rival gangs of young Irish kids engage in constantly escalating battles that ultimately entails the removal of the buttons from the clothes of captured losers. While the shenanigans cause obvious problems, the two leaders of the groups nonetheless develop a grudging admiration of the other and an estranged friendship. This film it examines issues of war, the actions and consequences that it always carries, and how it can divide and oppose people that can be friends as easy as they can be enemies.