Good stuff
I’ll admit that I was a little bit hesitant about this, another super low budget “slightly troubled young British boy falls in with wrong crowd” movie, but it was a nice surprise. This is England plays on nostalgia for 1983 urban England in the same way that Donnie Darko brought back 1988 small-town America. Thatcher, the Falklands, Roland Rat, Rubiks Cubes, Come on Eileen etc. I was just a baby in 1983, but it looks like I didn’t miss much! Some of the acting was outstanding – even though most of the cast had never done anything before, except for maybe the odd episode of Coronation Street. The only actor I recognised was Tommy from Snatch, as the skinhead who would like everyone to know he has definitely got the minerals this time. 13 year old Thomas Turgoose was very believable in the main role. IMDB has this funny bit of trivia:
“Thomas Turgoose had never acted before, had been banned from his school play for behaving badly and even demanded £5 to turn up for the film’s auditions.”
Rated /5 on Sep 06 2007 by James Galvin
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