Here Are the Young Men
Grow up or die trying.
Dramabased on novel or bookmale friendshipdublin, irelandaggressivehopelessteenage protagonistmean spirited
A bleak, aggressive portrait of Dublin youth adrift in nihilism and transgression, bound by male friendship but corroded by hopelessness and violence.
Dublin teenagers Matthew, nihilistic Rez, and the deranged Kearney, leave school to a social vacuum of drinking and drugs, falling into shocking acts of transgression.
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