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Love + Hate Reviews

2005

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Love + Hate is a modern love story set across the racial divide in a Northern town. Adam has been brought up in a home and community that fosters racial hatred. Naseema is a girl from the same town, belonging to a new generation of Asian youth who have taken up the violence offered to them as a way of reclaiming the past. But .. Read more

Starring	Samina Awan, Tom Hudson, Nichola Burley, Wasim Zakir
Director	Dominic Savage
Genres	Drama, Romance

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- After an early screening of this quick-paced, cleverly devised and youthful new film about love and racism in the... read more on Time Out
- 49414
- - Dave Calhoun
  - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:19
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  - 0
  Another great British film
  
  Saw this on a plane a few weeks ago. Typical down to earth British film exploring racism in a northern town - not in a particularly deep way. Its well acted ... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Neil
  - Derby
  - 30 May 2006 at 13:43
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- - 0
  - 0
  RECOMMEND IN SPADES!
  
  HOLLYWOOD THIS IS NOT. A GREAT BRITISH FILM IS WHAT IT IS. HYPOCRISY, DOUBLE STANDARDS, APPALLING RACISM, LOVE, LOYALTIES. ITS ALL THERE. AND GREAT ACTING. ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 12 Jul 2011 at 00:58
- - 0
  - 1
  Good British Film - but could've been better
  
  Good film, very watchable but lacking. Would have been better if there had been more dialogue between the two main characters. The storyline was really good but... read more »
  
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- 990645
- - fickleandpicky
  - 3 reviews
  - 08 May 2011 at 21:56
- - 0
  - 1
  Romance in a DIY store
  
  An unlikely romance develops among wallpapers, racial violence and hypocrisy on all sides. The young couple seem somewhat unconvincing, but the rest of the film... read more »
  
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- 862685
- - a customer
  - Hillingdon, England
  - 17 Feb 2010 at 12:26
- - 1
  - 0
  Love and hate
  
  Such a classic tale and yet made so gritty and modern by the social realism of a working class northern town. Fantastic acting throughout. A very simple idea ... read more »
  
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- 861046
- - a customer
  - West Yorkshire, England
  - 13 Feb 2010 at 08:46
- - 1
  - 0
  love + hate
  
  fresh!
  
  a new take on an old storyline.
  
  never trite.
  
  well done.
  
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- - a customer
  - BackRow
  - 29 Oct 2009 at 13:38
- - 1
  - 0
  well written
  
  A fairly well written and acted piece on an old theme. Quite realistic although quite difficult viewing at times.
  
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- 744606
- - a customer
  - UK
  - 17 Apr 2009 at 19:08
- - 0
  - 1
  Love & Hate
  
  This film is watchable, but not up to my expectations.
  
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- - a customer
  - Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
  - 21 Mar 2009 at 13:00
- - 1
  - 0
  excellent film
  
  Low budget film very real subject and most enjoyable! Highly recommended
  
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- - a customer
  - Manchester
  - 19 Oct 2008 at 21:13
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  - 1
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  xxxxx ddddss ssccffr ssddd
  
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- - a customer
  - Manchester
  - 09 Oct 2008 at 20:12
- - 1
  - 0
  A bit of a muddle
  
  This is a film with worthy intentions dealing with the issue of love across racial lines. It has the feeling of a made for TV movie and does not really have the... read more »
  
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- - Zamy
  - 546 reviews
  - London
  - 25 Sep 2008 at 21:14
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- - 11
  - 0
  Another great British film
  
  Saw this on a plane a few weeks ago. Typical down to earth British film exploring racism in a northern town - not in a particularly deep way. Its well acted ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 249723
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Neil
  - Derby
  - 30 May 2006 at 13:43
- - 8
  - 1
  Romy-O & Joolyet oop north
  
  I started watching this film with trepidation, fearing a paint-by-numbers contraction of Shakespeare and fairy-tales, a grim Hovis ad with added plangent ... read more »
  
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- 442311
- - Rehan
  - 126 reviews
  - London
  - 21 May 2007 at 22:33
- - 6
  - 0
  Very good
  
  I wasn't planning to see this film as I had never heard of it, but as I work in a cinema I was curious as to what it was about and saw it.
  
  I ... read more »
  
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- 272088
- - ribbonstring
  - 2 reviews
  - Sutton Coldfield, England
  - 06 Aug 2006 at 22:06
- - 4
  - 0
  A Good British Film
  
  Love + Hate, set in Blackburn, presents a picture of day-to-day jobsworth existence and a glimpse of how families might actually find a way of coming together (... read more »
  
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- 405825
- - Pete Shuttleworth
  - Hemel Hempstead
  - 25 Jan 2007 at 00:18
- - 3
  - 0
  Love to hate up north ..
  
  Well acted, but ultimately totally unrealistic take on mixed-relationships ..
  
  This isn't how racism is in todays society (who cares these days if... read more »
  
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- 446996
- - Paul Jay
  - London, England
  - 05 Jun 2007 at 14:01
- - 2
  - 0
  One to watch definitely
  
  I was pretty impressed by the excellent acting of the young cast in this well made film, which gives a realistic insight on the complications that the ... read more »
  
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- 290733
- - a customer
  - Bexley, London
  - 01 Oct 2006 at 00:18
- - 2
  - 0
  BLACK&WHITE
  
  GOOD FILM,VERY THOUGHT PROVOKING,JUST A PITY THINGS IN THIS FILM DO GO ON IN NORMAL DAY LIFE!!!...WORTH A LOOK....
  
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- 414831
- - WESTON POET
  - weston,England....
  - 24 Feb 2007 at 21:01
- - 2
  - 1
  Hard to relate to
  
  I couldn't empathise much with the characters in this film as the men were all violent self-centred morons of only slightly different degrees, and the women... read more »
  
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- 412766
- - a customer
  - East Midlands, UK
  - 17 Feb 2007 at 21:32
- - 2
  - 1
  Racism at its most annoyingly obvious
  
  Making a film about racism in modern day england has become an every day thing, mostly by television programme directors, and let's fac it now this is a ... read more »
  
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- 552264
- - CallMeMrAsh
  - 4 reviews
  - Lower Kingswood
  - 11 Apr 2008 at 17:57
- - 1
  - 0
  well worth a watch.
  
  fantastic what a film.
  
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- 380475
- - paul driver
  - cambs
  - 02 Nov 2006 at 19:01

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  Love + Hate is a modern love story set across the racial divide in a Northern town. Adam has been brought up in a home and community that fosters racial hatred. Naseema is a girl from the same town, belonging to a new generation of Asian youth who have taken up the violence offered to them as a way ...