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Awaydays (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
101 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Pat Holden

Written By:
Kevin Sampson

Actors:
Stephen Graham ..... John Godden
Nicky Bell ..... Paul Carty
Liam Boyle ..... Elvis
Oliver Lee ..... Baby Millan
Lee Battle ..... Billy Powell
Sean Ward ..... Robbie
Michael Ryan ..... Marty O'Conner
Ian Puleston-Davies ..... Uncle Bob
Holly Grainger ..... Molly (as Holliday Grainger)
Sacha Parkinson ..... Natasha
Samantha McCarthy ..... Jackie
Dean Smith ..... Ruggerbugger 1
Daniel Hewitson ..... Pack Regular #1
Dave Hewitson ..... Ageing Skin Head
Andrew Osbourne ..... Darren

Synopsis:

When Carty meets Elvis at a Bunnymen gig, they fall headlong into a volatile friendship that each of them aches for but neither can control. Violent, sexy and funny, Awaydays is a blade-sharp rites-of-passage that buzzes with the post-punk energy of its late-70's Liverpool setting.

Based on the classic novel by Kevin Sampson, and pulsating to a soundtrack of Joy Division, The Cure, Magazine, Echo & The Bunnymen and Ultravox, Awaydays examines identity, fate, the nature of male longings and their need to belong. It is the first major feature film to be set during, and evocatively portray, the first dawning of the football casual fashion cult. Quadrophenia meets Control. Trainspotting meets Stand By Me. Awaydays is all of these - A Catcher In The Rye with switchblades.

Paul Carty (Nicky Bell - LIFE ON MARS, CREEP) is a teenager driven out of his mind with boredom. Living a dull, suburban existence in the shadow of his dead mother and grieving father, Paul craves excitement and that's exactly what he finds when he meets Elvis (Liam Boyle - ROBIN HOOD, SPOOKS) who introduces him to a gang known as The Pack. But all is not what it seems and Paul soon discovers that Elvis is disenchanted by The Pack and for all it stands. Although Elvis does his utmost to dissuade Paul from joining the gang, recognising a kinship between them that seems impossible with the other 'nobodies' within, Paul is drawn into the group by his fascination with their dark and vicious world.

Paul Carty (Nicky Bell LIFE ON MARS, CREEP) is a teenager driven out of his mind with boredom. Living a dull, suburban existence in the shadow of his dead mother and grieving father, Paul craves excitement and that's exactly what he finds when he meets Elvis (Liam Boyle ROBIN HOOD, SPOOKS) who introduces him to a gang known as The Pack. But all is not what it seems and Paul soon discovers that Elvis is disenchanted by The Pack and for all it stands. Although Elvis does his utmost to dissuade Paul from joining the gang, recognising a kinship between them that seems impossible with the other 'nobodies' within, Paul is drawn into the group by his fascination with their dark and vicious world. Drama set in Birkenhead in 1979. Nicky Bell stars as 19-year-old Paul Carty, a bored, middle-class, junior civil servant who becomes involved in 'The Pack', a gang of 'casuals' who live for drugs, music, casual sex, football, fighting and, perhaps most importantly, fashion - specifically Fred Perry shirts, Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills trainers. As his intense relationship with fellow Pack member Elvis (Liam Boyle) begins to verge on the destructive, Paul finds himself plunged into a dark and violent world from which he cannot escape.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 04 November, 2009.

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