War of the Buttons

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🎙️ EPISODE 597: 11.14.22 This is the first of what's going to be six more TRUE RANDOM episodes before I'm putting this series on ice for an extended timeframe. I just can't do it anymore. In theory, this is a great idea (one of my best perhaps). But in practice, it has become a chore. I dread pressing play on these randomly chosen selections now. In many ways, this film is the perfect TRUE RANDOM movie: international and more than 25 years old, it's a film I would NEVER have known existed let alone watched without the GODS of TRUE RANDOM doing their bidding. This is a harmless family-oriented flick about two factions of "warring" pre-teens boys from the different sides of the tracks. There's a vague message about civics and a more concrete one about friendship. The guy who played Davos Seaworth in Game of Thrones is in this only he still has a full head of hair.

CHRONOLOGICALLY
⫷ EPISODE 596 - (YOU ARE HERE) - EPISODE 598 ⫸

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War of the Buttons is a 1994 comedy-drama adventure film directed by John Roberts. It was written by Colin Welland and based on the French novel La Guerre des boutons, by Louis Pergaud. The story, about two rival boys' gangs in Ireland, the Ballys (working class) and the Carricks (middle class), is set in County Cork, where it was filmed on location. It was released on August 4, 1994.