This Is England (2006)

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Storyline:
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. That is until Combo arrives on the scene, life for young Shaun has just approached his first major crossroads. This is England deals with the bitterness of outside influences such as racism and xenophobia, of mass unemployment and the fall out of the Falkland's War; Thatcher's Britain.

Additional Information:

Directed by: Shane Meadows
Produced by: Mark Herbert
Written by: Shane Meadows, Paddy Considine (uncredited)

Starring: Thomas Turgoose, Joe Gilgun, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure, Stephen Graham, Rosamund Hanson
Music by: Ludovico Einaudi
Cinematography: Danny Cohen
Editing by: Chris Wyatt
Studio: Film4, Warp Films

Distributed by: Optimum Releasing
Release date: 27 April 2007
Running time: 101 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Budget: �1,472,500
Box office: �5,058,600

Critiques:

"The script and direction are virtually flawless." David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle

"One of the year's best movies...It's one of the simplest and best re-creations of downscale urban England during the gritty post-punk years ever put on screen, and it's both upsetting and very funny." Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

"Masterfully charted and acted." Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

"The writer-director brilliantly juxtaposes the personal and the political, bookending a stirring coming-of-age drama with the provocative opening and an equally affecting end sequence." Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times

"It has the feel of a classic coming-of-age story. It's the sleeper of the summer." David Ansen, Newsweek

"The movie is taut, tense, relentless. It shows why Shaun feels he needs to belong to a gang, what he gets out of it and how it goes wrong." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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VampAurora's Critique:

A really great movie with strong pictures and resonant lessons. Stunning acting performances, great script and nicely directed. Funny, violent, and emotional. A movie you can't miss.

Rating: 91/100