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The Boy from Mercury
Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.
Cast
- Rita Tushingham as May Cronin
- Tom Courtenay as Uncle Tony Cronin
- Hugh O'Conor as Paul
- James Hickey as Harry Cronin
- Ian McElhinney as Brother Dowdall
- Kevin James as James "Mucker" Maguire
- Gerard Cannon as Classroom Schoolboy
- Johnny Ward as Classroom Schoolboy
- Joanne Gerrard as Sarah
- Sean Flanagan as Sean McCarthy
- Liam Heffernan as Usher
- Rachel Martin as Ice Cream Girl
Details
- Director
- Martin Duffy
- Released
- December 6, 1996
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Fantasy, Comedy, Family
- Studio
- Le Studio Canal+, Mercurian and Blue Rose
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 8.0 / 10 from 2 votes
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