Summaries

In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, 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.—Julian Reischl <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • fight
  • gang
  • cigarette smoking
  • hiking
  • knocked unconscious
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Sport
Release date Apr 2, 1998
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin United Kingdom
Language English
Filming locations Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Production companies BBC Film Scala Films

Box office

Gross US & Canada $91805
Opening weekend US & Canada $5522
Gross worldwide $91805

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 36m
Color Black and White
Sound mix Dolby
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

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