Feature
Film - twentyfourseven
In
this 1997 black-and-white movie, juveniles in a typical English
working-class town have nothing more to do than hang around
in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins), a highly motivated
man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying
to get the young people off the street and into doing something
they can believe in - boxing.
Soon
he opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs
start to grow together into friends. Darcy manages to organize a public fight
for them to prove what they have learned. A training camp with hiking tours into
the mountains of Wales forge the group into a tight-knit club society. With the
day of the fight drawing closer, the young boxers get more and more excited. Written
by Paul Fraser and Shane Meadows. Directed by Shane Meadows. This
movie won many European independent movie awards, including British Movie of the
Year Source
- imdb.com
Tim
Buckley's Look at the Fool was used in a scene in which Darcy begins
to whip his young charges into shape. |