Run with the crowd, stand alone, you decide.
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and character-led.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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“Is this Shane Meadows's best work?”
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- badelfon TMDB · Mar 20269/10
Directed by Shane Meadows “How economic precarity and national humiliation curdle into hate” could be the subtitle of This Is England, but that makes it sound more schematic than it is. What Shane Meadows has made here is first and foremost one of the most fascinating coming‑of‑age films I’ve ever seen, and only secondarily a political anatomy of how a lonely child becomes raw material for the far right. Coming‑of‑age stories are often simple, no matter how good. A kid meets friends, discovers sex, music, rebellion, maybe loss. This Is England gives you all of that and then shows you the bill. Thomas Turgoose, as Shaun, doesn’t just play a kid; he is a kid, in all his awkwardness, bravado, woundedness. He stole every frame for me, so incredibly authentic that you forget there’s a camera anywhere near him. You can feel how desperately he wants to belong, how easy it becomes, in that state, to mistake any intense attention for love. I’m not expert enough in the British punk and skinhead scene to audit it for accuracy, but it feels right in my bones. My guess is yes, Meadows got it. What I can say with confidence is that he and his team absolutely nailed the 1980s look and feel on a c
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Cast
- Thomas TurgooseShaun
- Stephen GrahamCombo
- Jo HartleyCynth
- Andrew ShimMilky
- Vicky McClureLol
- Joseph GilgunWoody
- Rosamund HansonSmell
- Andrew EllisGadget
- Perry BensonMeggy
- George NewtonBanjo
Crew
- Shane MeadowsDirector
- Shane MeadowsScreenplay
- Danny CohenDirector of Photography
- Ludovico EinaudiOriginal Music Composer
- Chris WyattEditor
- Mark HerbertProducer
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