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Two teenage boys from inner-city Cork steal bicycles and ride off on a 160km quest to find an unrecovered bale of cocaine worth 7,000,000 euros.


“Most wars last years. This one has to be over by dinner.”
War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.

Liam Cunningham
The Master

Colm Meaney
Geronimo's Dad

Ger Ryan
Fergus' Mum

Gregg Fitzgerald
Fergus
Gerard Kearney
Big Con
Darragh Naughton
Boffin
Brendan McNamara
Tim
Kevin O'Malley
Fishy
John Cleere
Peter
Anthony Cunnigham
Little Con
War of the Buttons is a comedy, drama, adventure, family film released in 1994 exploring themes of based on novel or book, rivalry, ireland, button, 1960s, irish. Directed by John Roberts, it stars Liam Cunningham, Colm Meaney, Ger Ryan. War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.
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