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Based loosely on his own experiences, writer-director Duncan Roy's feature debut recalls SIX DEGREES OF SEPERATION (1993) by way of THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (1999), shaped by the very particular rules and mores of England's notoriously unforgiving class system. 1979: Gay, lower-middle class teenager Dean Page (Matthew Leitch) dreams of escaping dreary suburban Romford and the taunts of a violent, sexually abusive father (Geoff Bell) whose bitter, threatening refrain — "[you] think you're too good for us" — is aimed equally at Dean and his brutalized mother, Georgie (Lindsey Coulson). Georgie works at an upscale restaurant and imagines that the snooty aristoc...