Float Like a Butterfly
- IMDb link: 7636672
- IMDb rating: 5.9 (402 votes)
- Genres: Drama, Sport, History
- Director: Carmel Winters
- Cast: Hazel Doupe, Hilda Fay, Dara Devaney, Johnny Collins, Johnny Collins and others
- Release date: 10 May 2019
- Release year: 2018
- Runtime: 104 minutes
- Country: Ireland
- Keywords: boxing, female boxer, boxer, boxing training, ambition, paternal love, ireland, dreamer, champion, poverty
Plot:
From the producers of "Once" and "Sing Street", "Float Like a Butterfly" is a powerful, timely story of a girl's fight for freedom and belonging. In a gender-reversal of the classic film "Billy Elliott," 15-year-old Frances must fight for the right to fight back. Raised in roadside camps in rural Ireland, Frances wants to champion her people inside the boxing ring and out, like her idol Muhammad Ali. But society is determined to break her spirit and destroy her way of life. And her father, once her greatest ally, is too defeated himself to imagine anything better for his daughter. But Frances was not born to be broken. In the mother of all fights, she must dig deep to find in herself the Champion her father once knew her to be.