The Devil's Playground
PG-13
6.8
1979
1 hr 47 min
Drama
A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions.
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- Cast：
- Arthur Dignam , Nick Tate , Simon Burke , John Diedrich , Warren Coleman , Jonathan Hardy , Gerry Duggan
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Best movie of this year hands down!
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Very Cool!!!
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Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
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Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
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