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Genres:
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Drama
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Director:
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Saul Dibb
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Actors:
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Jaime Winstone,
Louise Delamere,
Claire Perkins,
Sylvester Williams,
Leon Black,
Chris Callendar,
Dora Clouttick,
Luke Fraser,
Des Hamilton,
Martin Heathcote,
Gary Henry,
Sid Karne,
Clark Lawson,
Sharea-mounira Samuels,
Greg Tanner,
Rio Tison,
Jadiel Vitalis,
Curtis Walker,
Ashley Walters
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Duration:
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89 min.
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Rating:
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(6.5/10)76.5
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Plot Summary:
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Ricky is just incorrect of a juvenile offenders institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to nearly upfront. In lieu of, he heads straight for trouble when he becomes convoluted in a concourse confrontation, siding with his best friend Wisdom against a county rude servant. The trouble escalates into a series of tit-as-tat incidents that threaten to volute unserviceable of control. Ricky's 12-year-ageing buddy Curtis, superstar-worships Ricky, even if he appears smart enough to know he doesn't to follow his example. Till, in defiance of the stern warnings from his protect and bear from... her friends in the community, sway Ricky's bad little shaver allure be too attractive notwithstanding Curtis to stand up to?Read more Less
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Gritty drama
One of those locally made gritty dramas that the British make so well.
No high powered expensive special effects, just good quality acting and drama about young black men, guns and respect on the streets. Rent it!
So Solid Performance
Went to see this because of Ashley Walters playing Ricky- he was outstanding in Storm Damage and it is good to see him on a comeback. The film got BBC funding whereas Plague- another UK drama dealing with similar issues did not. Good film worth going to see but not without faults. The Wisdom character is shown as an obvious bad influence, but unlike in films like Mean Streets and Pope of Greenwich Village, the relationship between him and Ricky is not very developed- we do not feel the loyalty that Ricky tells us he has for his friend. The film would have been much better to show more of Wisdom and his worldview, but maybe the film makers did not want to glamourize crime. The Curtis and Rio characters were very well played- these child actors had humour and charm and the friendship seemed ...
Bullet Boy
Paraphernalia documentary-style stage show on the difficulties facing black youths in London, exacerbated close a macho suavity that regards the slightest defamation as requiring mountainous redress.
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