High Boot Benny (1994)

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"A police informant is found dead in a boarding-school situated near the border between Northern Ireland and Eire. There are three suspects: the protestant school headmistress; Marley, an unfrocked missionary priest; and Benny, a seventeen-year-old criminal who has taken sanctuary in the school… This bleak Irish drama is a morbid exercise in symbolism that uses the story as an allegory for "The Troubles". Teenage delinquent Benny, who sports a mohican and steel-shinned boots is caught in the m"