The Football Factory (2004)

The Football Factory (2004) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
87 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Nick Love

Written By:
John King
Nick Love

Actors:
Danny Dyer ..... Tommy Johnson
Frank Harper ..... Billy Bright
Tamer Hassan ..... Fred
Roland Manookian ..... Zeberdee
Neil Maskell ..... Rod
Dudley Sutton ..... Bill Farrell
Jamie Foreman ..... Cabbie
Tony Denham ..... Harris (as Anthony Denham)
Calum McNab ..... Raff
John Junkin ..... Albert Moss
Sophie Linfield ..... Tamara
Kara Tointon ..... Shie
Michele Hallak ..... Shian
Daniel Naylor ..... Terry
Alison Egan ..... Barbara

Synopsis:

This is England's worst nightmare. Enjoy it! Tommy Johnson is a bored twentysomething who lives for his weekends of casual sex, watered-down lager, heavily-cut drugs and occasionally kicking the hell out of someone. Tommy's life ambles along until a violent encounter with the top boy of a rival firm starts a tit-for-tat war and a series of nightmares that force him to ask himself the question about his life: is it worth it? Told through Tommy's eyes and linked together by his relationships with three other generations of males, Nick Love has taken John King's bestselling novel 'The Football Factory' and turned it into a film that leaves a brilliant mixture of excitement and anguish in the pit of your stomach.

The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, its about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males fed up with being told they're not good enough and using their fists as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together. Shot in documentary style with the energy and vibrancy of handheld, The Football Factory is frighteningly real yet full of painful humor as the four characters extreme thoughts and actions unfold before us.

Testosterone and football combine to paint a violent portrait of middle-class England in director Nick Love's adrenaline-charged adaptation of John King's popular novel. Tommy is your typical twenty-something soccer fan; bored with life, in love with lager, and always looking for a little action from the ladies. Of course there's the fighting, too. When Tommy exchanges blows with a rival football fan and the situation quickly spins out of control, the thuggish sports fanatic is prompted to reconsider his brutal lifestyle and make a change for the better.

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