Product Details

• Actors: Danny Nussbaum, Bob Hoskins, Tony, Bruce Jones, Annette Badland
• Directors: Shane Meadows
• Producers: Twenty Four Seven
• Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000AQDRVS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #367,205 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SYNOPSIS: In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Soon he opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs start to grow together into friends. Darcy manages to organize a public fight for them to prove what they have learned. A training camp with hiking tours into the mountains of Wales forge the group into a tight-knit club society. With the day of the fight drawing closer, the young boxers get more and more excited.
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, British Independent Film Awards, European Film Awards, Thessaloniki Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, ...Twenty Four Seven

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3.0 out of 5 stars Promising, October 15, 2006

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Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Twenty Four Seven [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] (DVD)

Twenty Four Seven is the kind of debut that gets hailed as promising, which is another way of saying the director clearly has talent but doesn't know what to do with it yet. Certainly compared to most of the substandard product in the UK over the past decade it's a cut above, but there's not much substance to its tale of Bob Hoskins' attempts to regain some self-respect and keep various teenagers out of trouble by starting a boxing club. For all the naturalism, there's not enough character to carry it over into tragedy when the feelgood factor takes an unexpected turn in the final third, one it sadly fails to exploit or investigate. Ironically, director Shane Meadows' subsequent film, A Room for Romeo Brass would have the opposite problem, delivering a brilliantly realized character in a thin plot before he would finally deliver the goods with Dead Man's Shoes. Very watchable and not without its incidental pleasures nonetheless, the DVD includes an amiably down to Earth commentary by Meadows and writer Paul Fraser and the original trailer.

Also included on the UK PAL DVD, 9-minute short film Three Tears for Jimmy Prophet isn't particularly memorable as a piece of filmmaking, but it's another impressive bit of corroborating evidence for the theory that Paddy Considine is the best British actor of his generation. There's nothing outstandingly original in the writing, but there's real emotional truth in his performance as a small-time boxer whose life has taken a turn for the tragic.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Stylish, political, angry film full of paradox and irony., February 14, 2001

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darragh o'donoghue - See all my reviews

This review is from: Twentyfourseven [VHS] (VHS Tape)

this wonderful film ironises the feel-good 'Rocky' tradition to critique an ideology - Thatcherism - that poisoned a nation still searching for the antidote. Like all Meadows films, this is great fun, with authentic-seeming performances matched by remarkable style, mixing stylised naturalism with sketch-like sequences (one echoing the beach games of Kitano's 'Sonatine'). But, looming over the larks is a depressing framing story - we know the plot ends up here. the unbearable tension is discovering how.

the answer is heartbreaking, showing how the Thatcher years brought Britain to the brink of fascism, where an underclass are either bullied or ignored to a point where the only means of expression is self-destructive violence. The 'poetic' voiceover is a mistake, especially for a director of Meadows' visual eloquence, but he'll get there. A great feature debut.