This Is England
DramaCrime
7.47/10
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|101 min
Release Date: 2007-04-27
Overview - 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.
Production Companies
EM MediaUK Film CouncilScreen YorkshireBig Arty ProductionsFilm4 Productions
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badelf
9/10
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 ...
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