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