British director Shane Meadows' strongest film to date is also his most personal: A stylish fictionalization of his own wayward youth, spent among a group of working-class skinheads in Thatcher's England.
July 1983: Charles and Diana are married, unemployment in the U.K. has soared to a staggering 3.3 million, and though England's war with Argentina over the sheep-filled Falkland Islands is largely seen by much of the world as a bizarre joke, British soldiers are in fact dying far from home. Among those killed is the father of 12-year-old Shaun Fields (Thomas Turgoose), a towheaded scrapper who lives with his widowed mum (Jo Hartley) in a drab, coastal-town...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins