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From the poverty and despair of an English industrial town, one man with a dream (Bob Hoskins) forms a boxing club to give troubled teenagers a fighting chance. The lads learn lessons of self-respect and male bonding, but amidst the triumph of the biggest tournament of their lives, tragedy strikes. Shane Meadows' debut features .. Read more
| Starring | Bob Hoskins, Bruce Jones, Frank Harper, Annette Badland |
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| Director | Shane Meadows |
| Genres | Drama |
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From the poverty and despair of an English industrial town, one man with a dream (Bob Hoskins) forms a boxing club to give troubled teenagers a fighting chance. The lads learn lessons of self-respect and male bonding, but amidst the triumph of the biggest tournament of their lives, tragedy strikes. Shane Meadows' debut features gritty black-and-white cinematography that perfectly captures the desolation of working-class life in post-Thatcher Britain.
| Starring | Bob Hoskins, Bruce Jones, Frank Harper, Annette Badland, Danny Nussbaum |
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| Director | Shane Meadows |
| Studio | PATHE DISTRIBUTION |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 32 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1997 To Rent: DVD: 30 Jun 2003 |
Those who have seen Shane Meadows' camcorder gem Smalltime will already know the young writer/director is one of... read more on Time Out
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Bob Hoskins aside the cast of ?Twenty Four Seven? consists largely of unknown actors, some of whom have appeared in Shane Meadow?s previous work.
The... read more »
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Twenty Four Seven
Twenty Four Seven was a great film Bob hoskins was fantastic in this film. well worth watching rent it now.
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Fantastic Film!
I don't usually write reviews, but I felt that I had to for this film. I live on a housing 'development' and therefore could relate to this film ... read more »
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Best of Meadows's films?
I've been working my way through SM's films avidly, though when this arrived it sat on the side for a while because I felt put off by the idea of it ... read more »
I went to film school with Shane Meadows. Not really, but a few years ago I did do a one-day film-making course in Nottingham that Shane supervised. He showed us which end of the camera to look through, split us into groups of three, and gave us a couple of hours to come up with a script and go out and shoot it. I'd like to report that my team came back with a masterpiece, but that might be an exaggeration. Let's just say the reviews I wrote over the next couple of weeks were probably more... Read more