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Twenty Four Seven (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
British Independent Film Awards
European Film Awards
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Venice Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Movie filmed in 1997 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Shane Meadows

Written By:
Paul Fraser
Shane Meadows

Actors:
Danny Nussbaum ..... Tim
Tony ..... Woody (the Dog)
Bob Hoskins ..... Alan Darcy
Bruce Jones ..... Tim's Dad (Geoff)
Annette Badland ..... Tim's Mother (Pat)
Justin Brady ..... Gadget
James Hooton ..... 'Wolfman' Knighty
Darren O. Campbell ..... Daz (as Darren Campbell)
Krisham Beresford ..... Young Darcy
Karl Collins ..... Stuart
Anthony Clarke ..... Youngy
Johann Myers ..... Benny
Jimmy Hynd ..... Meggy
Mat Hand ..... Wesley Fagash
Dominic Dillon ..... Court Security Man (as Lord Dominic Dillon of Eldon)

Synopsis:

In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Soon he opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs start to grow together into friends. Darcy manages to organize a public fight for them to prove what they have learned. A training camp with hiking tours into the mountains of Wales forge the group into a tight-knit club society. With the day of the fight drawing closer, the young boxers get more and more excited.

In this debut feature film from young British writer-director Shane Meadows, an unemployed ex-boxer, Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins), borrows money from a gangster to set up a boxing club in his small, gritty English city. Darcy narrates the story from his diary notes. Boxing saved him from a wasted youth, and Darcy promotes the idea to the town fathers as a gang-prevention strategy. The town's economy is in shambles and the young men have nothing to look forward to. Darcy gives them a reason to live and a dream, converting their violent energy to sport and fostering a sense of camaraderie and sportsmanship. First he wins them over by playing soccer with them, then he lures them into his lessons on boxing. He drives them hard to prepare them for their first match, against boxers from a rival local team. Darcy has the team poised to win when one of his best fighter's parents threatens to pull him from the match.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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