The Boy from Mercury (1996)

Directed by

Martin Duffy

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Ireland

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

U

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy in 1960s Dublin escapes into science fiction daydreams. The story follows his imaginative adventures and the people around him.

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What happens

The Boy from Mercury is a 1996 Irish-French-British film, the debut of writer and director Martin Duffy. The film concerns the science-fiction daydreams of a young boy in 1960 Dublin. Upon release, the film received international critical acclaim, and several awards, though was commercially unsuccessful. It was the first time actors Rita Tushingham and Tom Courtenay had appeared on screen together since Doctor Zhivago thirty years earlier. The film was also the debut of the Irish actor James Hickey. The book of the making of the film, The Road to Mercury, written by the director and released in 2006 by Ogma Press. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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