The Boy from Mercury (1996)
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.
- Date of release
- 1996-12-06
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Fantasy, Comedy, Family
- Director
- Martin Duffy
Casting
- 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
- Johnny Ward — Classroom Schoolboy
- Joanne Gerrard — Sarah
- Sean Flanagan — Sean McCarthy
- Liam Heffernan — Usher
- Rachel Martin — Ice Cream Girl
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