Boy A (2007) on Netflix
Eric Wilson spent fourteen years in a Young Offender Institution. Released as Jack Burridge, he finds a job, a friend in Chris and a girlfriend in Michelle, keeping his past to himself.
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Plot summary
Tried under the name Boy A for a killing committed when he was a child, Eric Wilson has spent fourteen years in a Young Offender Institution. Now released under a new identity, Jack Burridge, he is guided by his caseworker Terry, takes a job at a delivery firm, makes a friend of his colleague Chris and starts seeing Michelle from the office. Terry warns him that a reward is still posted for the boy who killed a girl and that his old name must stay buried. When Jack helps a child at a car crash, a local newspaper turns him into a hero and prints his picture.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Boy A (2007)
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- The novel the film is adapted from was noted for how closely it resembled the James Bulger case, whose offenders were released from custody at about the time the book was published.
