Hooligans (2005) ( Green Street Hooligans ) ( Football Hooligans )

Hooligans (2005) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Green Street Hooligans
Alternate Title: Football Hooligans
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( DTS 5.1 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( DTS 5.1 )
French ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Belgium ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
110 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Lexi Alexander

Written By:
Lexi Alexander
Dougie Brimson

Actors:
Elijah Wood ..... Matt Buckner
Charlie Hunnam ..... Pete Dunham
David Alexander ..... Nigel
Oliver Allison ..... Ben Dunham
James Allison ..... Ben Dunham
Geoff Bell ..... Tommy Hatcher
Joel Beckett ..... Terry
Kieran Bew ..... Ike
David Carr ..... Clive
Andrew Blair ..... Announcer
Brendan Charleson ..... John Morris
Scott Christie ..... Millwall Lad / Ricky
Alec Dalman ..... Security Guard
Claire Forlani ..... Shannon Dunham
Jacob Gaffney ..... Todd

Synopsis:

Unjustly expelled from Harvard when a stash of cocaine is found in his possession, Matt moves to London to live with his sister and her husband Steve. He is quickly introduced to Steve's chirpy, cock-sure younger brother Pete. Initially, Pete is reluctant to get acquainted with Matt and allow him to tread around the capital city with him because he may be seen by others as an 'outsider', but after a heavy drinking session with him and his mates he quickly changes his opinion of him. On the way back from a football match, Matt is viciously accosted by a gang of Birmingham City thugs, until Pete and his friends step in and save him. It is from here that Matt learns the truth about Pete and his friends - they are football hooligans, operating the GSE (Green Street Elite) 'firm.' Initially afraid of the violence, Matt soon ends up becoming as desensitized to it as his new found friends - but as events roll on, suspicion, shocking revelations and unsettled scores combine to a devastating climax where London's most fierce football rivals - Millwall and West Ham United - are set to go head to head.

Along with war, sports has long been the arena for straight men to work out their issues with one another, and while not stated outright, it's brutally clear that all the punching, pounding, shoving, stomping and head-butting in this film are the vehicle for some serious sublimation. The love that dare speak its name here is for football. The love that dare not is among nominally heterosexual men who prefer hoisting a few pints, and generally more, with their mates down at the pub rather than staying home with the little woman. Such is the case in 'Green Street Hooligans,' an accidental advertisement for Alcoholics Anonymous and the somnolent pleasures of cricket that, in the end, is mostly about the pleasures, both visceral and visual, of violence. The trace of a plot wedged between all the body blows involves a young American, Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood), who, after getting booted out of Harvard, ends up in London ladding about in support of West Ham United Football Club.

After Harvard student Matt Buckner is wrongfully expelled he then decides to visit his sister in England Shannon while in the process meets his sister's husband Steve Dunham and his little brother Pete Dunham and the two quickly become friends but only until the next day that after going to watch West Ham United v Birmingham City and being involved in a fight between the two teams firms that he finds out that his new cockney friend is in fact the violent top boy (leader) of West Ham's hooligan firm the GSE (green street elite) but despite this fact finds himself getting involved along with a reputation and what no university can teach him, he learns to fight, confidence, and most importantly he learns to stand by his friends no matter what the consequences in this gritty violent story of hooliganism, respect, and friendship.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 01 September, 2020.