War of the Buttons (1994)

Actors: Pat Laffan (actor), Liam Cunningham (actor), Colm Meaney (actor), Xavier Gélin (producer), Louise Frogley (costume designer), Richard Morrison (miscellaneous crew), Rachel Portman (composer), David Puttnam (producer), Eamonn Hunt (actor), Jacqueline Gamard (miscellaneous crew), Donncha Crowley (actor), Ger Ryan (actress), Frank O'Sullivan (actor), Alan Devlin (actor), Frank Kelly (actor),

Plot: The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces, belts and braces of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, wilding sticks and catapults and cutting off their opponents buttons etc. Once they go to battle completely naked. In one such scene about 30 naked boys are chasing boys from the other village to the lake only to find some girls waiting for them and they get very embarrassed.

Keywords: based-on-novel, boy, button, child-nudity, dressing, foreign-language-adaptation, fox, friend, graffiti, helicopter
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Family,
Taglines: Most wars last years. This one has to be over by dinner.

Quotes:

Fergus: Tell them all what they get if they mess with the boys from Ballydowse.

Riley: And all the stuff, when we get it, where will we put it?::Fergus: In our HQ.::Little Con: What's an HQ?

Riley: Long live the King.::Boffin: It's the Queen now, it is, you moron.::Riley: Then God save the Queen.

Little Con: Make him eat horse crap.

Little Con: Maybe he hasnt told them yet.::Tich: He'd have to, he didnt have any clothes on.

Tim: What happened?::Fishy: Geronimo. He said I looked too pleased with myself.

Fergus: That's right, don't show your ugly mugs, the shock would sink our boat.

Fergus: For Ballydowse and Ireland... Charge.

Riley: Im not paying good money to stand in the toilets.

Gorilla: Dont hurt me, I'll tell me dad.