Movie: War of the Buttons (1994)
Tagline: Most wars last years. This one has to be over by dinner.
Trivia: The parents of one of the boys in this film took a court action to prevent this film being released. The grounds for their action were that their son’s naked buttocks could be seen in the film. the action was dismissed on the grounds that they (the buttocks) didn’t appear on screen long enough to allow identification and also that the parents should have raised their objection before the scene was filmed.
Goofs: Continuity: When the boys go to vandalize the church, they take off their shoes. When they are almost caught and the boy with the eggs goes out, he has his shoes on. After he comes out of the house they’re off again.
“The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, throwing stones and cutting off their opponents buttons etc. And sometimes they go to battle completely naked and exposed. In one such scene about 30 boys return from a battle to celebrate victory at a barn-house only to find some girls waiting for them and they get very embarrassed at losing their privacy. Written by Kendall Blake <bluebird90@hotmail.com>”
