Product Details

• Actors: Bob Hoskins, Danny Nussbaum, Tony, Bruce Jones, Annette Badland
• Directors: Shane Meadows
• Writers: Shane Meadows, Paul Fraser
• Producers: David M. Thompson, George Faber, Imogen West, Nik Powell, Sally French
• Format: PAL
• Language: English
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00004CX0V
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #99,939 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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

By	darragh o'donoghue (dublin, ireland) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

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.