The Boy from Mercury (1996)
1h 27m
Running Time
December 6, 1996Release Date
The Boy from Mercury (1996)
1h 27m
Running Time
December 6, 1996Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Rita Tushingham
May Cronin

Tom Courtenay
Uncle Tony Cronin

Hugh O'Conor
Paul

James Hickey
Harry Cronin

Ian McElhinney
Brother Dowdall

Kevin James
James 'Mucker' Maguire

Gerard Cannon
Classroom Schoolboy

Jo Gerard
Sarah, Paul's Girlfriend

Johnny Ward
Classroom Schoolboy

Sean Flanagan
Sean McCarthy

Martin Duffy
Director / Writer

Liam Heffernan
Usher

Claire Duignan
Executive Producer

Rachel Martin
Ice Cream Girl

Stephen McKeon
Original Music Composer

Marina Hughes
Producer
Details.
Wiki.
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.
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