A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following a tragic incident during a violent clash with some of the local agitators. The Guardian proposed that "if Spielberg's ET, in the immortal words of Pauline Kael, was a bliss out, Karl Francis' 'Boy Soldier' is a bleed out for sheer fist shaking emotionalism, it would be hard to find another British film of recent years to beat it."
Richard Lynch
as Wil Thomas
Emer Gillespie
as Deirdre
Bernard Hill
as Officer
Dafydd Hywel
as Sergeant Crane
Simon Coady
as Quinnell
Dylan Davies
as Joe
James Donnelly
as Truscott-Jones
Russell Gomer
as Wright
Terry Jackson
as Sergeant
Bernard Latham
as Roberts
Timothy Lyn
as Gary
Stephen Lyons
as Hotel Manager
