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Made In Britain (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
73 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Movie filmed in 1982 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Alan Clarke

Written By:
David Leland

Actors:
Tim Roth ..... Trevor the Skinhead
Vass Anderson ..... Canteen Manager
Allister Bain ..... Hopkins
David Baldwin ..... Leroy
Kim Benson ..... Job Centre Girl #1
John Bleasdale ..... Policeman #1
Richard Bremmer ..... Policeman #2
Sean Chapman ..... Barry Giller
Catherine Clarke ..... Job Centre Girl #2
Frankie Cosgrove ..... Viv Parker
Sharon Courtney ..... House Parent
Noel Diacomo ..... Solicitor
Jim Dunk ..... Chef
Christopher Fulford ..... P.C. Anson
Brian Hayes ..... Man on Stairs #1
Geoffrey Hutchings ..... Superintendent
Jean Marlow ..... Job Centre Woman
Maurice Quick ..... Magistrate
Eric Richard ..... Harry Parker
Terry Richards ..... Errol
Jirí Stanislav ..... Man on Stairs #2
Bill Stewart ..... Peter Clive
Steve Sweeney ..... Job Centre Youth (as Stephen Sweeney)

Synopsis:

Written by David Leland and directed by Alan Clarke, Made in Britain is a slice of horrible but not inaccurate life from 1982. It holds a terrific early performance from Tim Roth as a skinhead with a swastika caste-mark tattoo, who constantly bares shark-like teeth as he spits embittered, articulate defiance at caring social workers and truncheon-wielding policemen alike. Sixteen-year-old Trevor (Roth) is remanded to an assessment centre before sentencing, but remains determined to disobey the rules imposed on him by any authority figures and spends the whole 73-minute play challenging the system to smack him back down, by vandalising the Job Centre, using his case-file as a toilet, stealing cars, victimising members of the 'immigrant community' and shouting bile at people. The cycle that will lead him to an adult life in prison is explained to him with blackboard diagrams, but he believes he's better off keeping his hatred burning than toeing the line to end up as a no-hoper in a society that prizes obedience over conscience. It was originally televised as one of four Leland-filmed dramas about different aspects of the British education system, which made it seem less monomaniacal in its focus on an extreme case. There's no denying that it's an honest portrait of a monster calculated to terrify even the most concerned liberals which still manages to celebrate his self-destructive defiance. A film for television rather than a TV play, it has very strong language but the violence is all in Roth's face.

A grim, unsparing look at disaffected youth in Thatcher's England, Alan Clarke's Made in Britain features a brilliantly feral screen debut by actor Tim Roth (Reservoir Dogs). Like Mike Leigh and Ken Loach,

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 26 December, 2007.

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