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Babylon Details

1980 Certificate 18
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"Babylon" is a gritty, neorealist account of the lives of a group of West Indian youths living in London. Blue (Brinsley Forde) is the Rastafarian leader of a Sound System, "Ital Lion" (a mobile disc-jockey team who spin reggae records at clubs, parties, and other gatherings) who is trying to prepare for an upcoming Sound .. Read more

Starring Brinsley Forde, Karl Howman, Mel Smith, Trevor Laird
Director Franco Rosso
Genres Drama

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"Babylon" is a gritty, neorealist account of the lives of a group of West Indian youths living in London. Blue (Brinsley Forde) is the Rastafarian leader of a Sound System, "Ital Lion" (a mobile disc-jockey team who spin reggae records at clubs, parties, and other gatherings) who is trying to prepare for an upcoming Sound System competition. Blue's love of music is one of the few positive outlets in his life; with the crime and violence of London's slums, the verbal and physical attacks by racist whites, and the jealousy of other DJs, Blue is reaching the end of his rope. That rope begins to fray when Blue is fired from his job, is brutally attacked by police officers, and discovers that his DJ equipment has been destroyed by angry neighbours. Unlike most films about reggae music and culture, Babylon doesn't explore the sunny side of Jamaican life or West Indian gangland culture; instead, it looks at how the implicit radicalism of reggae mirrored political and social concerns in the urban areas outside Jamaica where the music was so enthusiastically embraced.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Starring Brinsley Forde, Karl Howman, Mel Smith, Trevor Laird, Brian Bovell, Victor Romero Evans, David N. Haynes, Archie Pool, Beverley Michaels, Maggie Steed, Bill Moody
Director Franco Rosso
Studio ICON HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 35 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 31 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Released Production year: 1980

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DVD: 13 Oct 2008
Blu-ray: 05 Jan 2009

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      "Babylon" is a gritty, neorealist account of the lives of a group of West Indian youths living in London. Blue (Brinsley Forde) is the Rastafarian leader of a Sound System, "Ital Lion" (a mobile disc-jockey team who spin reggae records at clubs, parties, and other gatherings) who is trying to ...

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