A film that is a premise for the excellent career of Paddy Considine.
Considine plays a strange character, Morell who is befriended by a couple of 12 year old best friends Romeo Brass and Gavin "Knocks" Woolley. Brass is played by regular Shane Meadows stock company actor Andrew Shimm. Milky in This Is England.
As the film progresses we see the friendship of the boys (also next door neighbours) being tested by the unstable Morrell who isn't what he seems at the start of the movie.
The film is early in director Shane Meadows career, he would later go on to greatness with This is England (2006). Is Morrell a forerunner of the Stephen Graham character Combo in that?
Is the kitchen sink feel of the Nottingham location also an early template for his career?
The ending is violent but a fair comeuppance. Excellent early Meadows film.
Considine plays a strange character, Morell who is befriended by a couple of 12 year old best friends Romeo Brass and Gavin "Knocks" Woolley. Brass is played by regular Shane Meadows stock company actor Andrew Shimm. Milky in This Is England.
As the film progresses we see the friendship of the boys (also next door neighbours) being tested by the unstable Morrell who isn't what he seems at the start of the movie.
The film is early in director Shane Meadows career, he would later go on to greatness with This is England (2006). Is Morrell a forerunner of the Stephen Graham character Combo in that?
Is the kitchen sink feel of the Nottingham location also an early template for his career?
The ending is violent but a fair comeuppance. Excellent early Meadows film.