This is England (2006)

Name: This is England
Genre: Crime
Duration: 98 min
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure

This is England

Crime

Documentary

Drama

Release Date: September 12, 2006
Director: Shane Meadows
Cast: Thomas Turgoose , Stephen Graham , Jo Hartley , Andrew Shim , Vicky McClure , Joseph Gilgun
Runtime: 98
Main Genre: Crime
Writers: Shane Meadows
Tagline: Summer 1983. A time to stand out from the crowd.
Website: http://thisisenglandmovie.co.uk/

Summary

It's 1983 and school is out. Twelve-year-old Shaun is a lonely boy growing up in a grim coastal town in northern England, whose father died fighting in the Falklands War. Over the course of the summer holiday he befriends a group of local skinheads. With his pent-up rage and frustration, Shaun finds exactly what he needs in the gang -- mischief, mayhem and brotherhood. He also meets the volatile and boorish Combo, an older skinhead who sees himself in Shaun. Adopting Shaun as his protégé, Combo leads the gang down a hate spewing path that culminates in an This Is England is set in early eighties England; a world of popular TV character Roland Rat, aerobics, the TV show Blockbusters, Margaret Thatcher, the Falklands crisis, racial unease, and skinheads. Drawing heavily from his own experiences growing up, Shane Meadows has created a portrait of an often-overlooked moment in cultural history. Against the backdrop of the skinhead scene in a deadbeat coastal town, we witness this traumatic rite of passage, both on a cultural and personal level, through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy.