This is England
It's 1983 and school is out. Twelve-year-old Shaun is a lonely boy, whose father died fighting in the Falklands War. Over the course of the summer holiday he befriends a group of local skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.
5 April 1957, Sedgefield, England, UK
1962, London, England, UK
7 July 1991, Derby, England, UK
1 August 1990, Derby, England, UK
24 July 1990, Wythenshawe, Manchester, England, UK
13 October 1925, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK
1 July 1961, Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk, England, UK
18 August 1983, Miami, Florida, USA
6 February 1911, Tampico, Illinois, USA
24 September 1989, Derby, England, UK
8 May 1983, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
August, 1953 in UK
3 August 1973, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
14 November 1948, Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, England, UK
7 April 1990, Derby, England, UK
9 April 1961, St Pancras, London, England, UK
12 March 1972, Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
November 29, 2007
Riveting.
November 15, 2007
Meadows obviously knows the working class neighborhoods that he depicts. There's a grit and honesty to his film as he chronicles the mundane details of these kids' lives.
November 09, 2007
An intelligent, spare, mean-streets sort of story, This Is England features superb performances...
December 22, 2007
Steeped in the raw mix of ska and punk sound as expression of the youth alienation and misguided rage of those tumultuous times, an alarming voice of the surging army of jobless youth back then dubbed 'no hopers.'
September 07, 2007
It may be the best work to date from the talented 34-year-old writer-director of Twenty Four Seven (1997).
August 08, 2009
It is the war within him--and by extension, within the minds of many embittered, working class young men left behind in Thatcher's England--that Meadows's film most strikingly portrays.
September 07, 2007
A drama that's so potent and persuasive yet also natural and intimate that it almost has the heft of a documentary.
November 09, 2007
You wouldn't think a film about a group of British skinheads during the early 1980s could be a sweet, nostalgic coming-of-age period piece, but that's the surprise of the authentic, fresh and utterly relevant This Is England.
December 18, 2007
Stephen Graham delivers a bravura performance as the brooding, mesmerizing Combo, clearly channeling Russell Crowe in Romper Stomper.
November 09, 2007
Its tough but moving neo-realist approach make it one of the better British films of recent times.
August 31, 2007
A movie about the allure of groupthink and how the warm comfort of being surrounded by peers wilts all sense of balance.
November 09, 2007
How sad and predictable is the fate of those who counsel violence as a means to an end. And yet how poignant it all seems when viewed through Shane Meadows' thoughtful lens.
