This Is England '86 - Entire Series ( This Is England Eighty Six ) ( This Is England Eighty Six )

This Is England '86 - Complete Series (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: This Is England Eighty Six
Alternate Title: This Is England Eighty Six
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
184 min + 32 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Behind the scenes
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Tom Harper

Written By:
Shane Meadows
Jack Thorne

Actors:
Andrew Ellis ..... Gadget
Andrew Shim ..... Milky
Chanel Cresswell ..... Kelly (4 episodes, 2010)
Danielle Watson ..... Trev
George Newton ..... Banjo
Hannah Walters ..... Trudy (4 episodes, 2010)
Joseph Dempsie ..... Higgy (4 episodes, 2010)
Joseph Gilgun ..... Woody (4 episodes, 2010)
Jo Hartley ..... Cynthia Fields
Johnny Harris ..... Mick (4 episodes, 2010)
Katherine Dow Blyton ..... Chrissy (4 episodes, 2010)
Kriss Dosanjh ..... Mr. Sandhu
Michael Socha ..... Harvey (4 episodes, 2010)
Perry Benson ..... Meggy
Perry Fitzpatrick ..... Flip (4 episodes, 2010)
Rosamund Hanson ..... Smell
Thomas Turgoose ..... Shaun
Vicky McClure ..... Lol
Stephen Graham ..... Combo
Georgia Foote ..... Gemma (2 episodes, 2010)
Jack Thorne ..... Carrotbum (2 episodes, 2010)
Thomas Arnold ..... Doctor (2 episodes, 2010)

Synopsis:

British filmmaker Shane Meadows looks back at his own youth in this semi-autobiographical comedy drama that examines skinhead culture in the U.K. It's the summer of 1983, and Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) is a 12-year-old boy edging into adolescence without a father, his dad having lost his life the year before in the Falkland Islands War. A gang of skinheads -- tough guys in their teens and early twenties who shave their heads, wear Ben Sherman polo shirts, and Dr. Martens boots, and listen to ska music -- walk the streets in Shaun's neighborhood, and one day they start picking on him. Shaun, however, shows he can give as good as he gets, and gang leader Woody (Joe Gilgun) takes a liking to the boy. Woody takes Shaun under his wing, and he starts hanging out with the skins, getting advice on dressing right from Woody's girlfriend, Lol (Vicky McClure), and learning about Jamaican music from West Indian skinhead Milky (Andrew Shim). However, the gang begins to change when Combo (Stephen Graham) is released from prison and returns to the neighborhood; like many skinheads, Combo has been recruited by the National Front, an openly racist right-wing political party, and soon the gang begins to fracture, with Combo taking one faction toward violence and petty crime against blacks, Indians, and Pakistanis, while Woody and his friends follow a more benign path. This Is England received its North American premiere at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival.

With its raw, grainy texture and forceful sense of urgency, Shane Meadows's unsparing revenge thriller is reminiscent of a kind of film prominent in the 1970's, most notably Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs." Like a cross between that film's antihero, a nonthreatening everyman forced to take violent measures, and the unraveling war veteran Travis Bickle from "Taxi Driver," the always fantastic Paddy Considine evokes both sensitivity and explosiveness as Richard, a troubled ex-soldier who returns to his hometown in northern England with payback on his mind. The power of the performance by Mr. Considine, who wrote the script with Mr. Meadows, is even more extraordinary, considering that his character's complex psyche is woefully unexplored, and that there are long stretches in which he is absent from the screen.

This Is England '86 will pick up with the lives of Shaun, Woody and Lol in 1986--the year Chris de Burgh is at number one, Top Gun is filling cinemas, the World Cup is raging in Mexico and over 3.4 million Brits are unemployed. As Shaun sits his last school exam, the realisation dawns that adulthood beckons. It's mid-80s England and he's going to have to find his own way in the world. Life has dealt a surprise hand to his friends too and no one is quite where they thought they would be- Woody, Lol, Smell, Gadget- they are back and looking for love, a laugh, a job and something that resembles a future.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 11 November, 2010.

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