Calverton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Color
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Color (Technicolor)
Genre
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Comedy / Drama
MPAA
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Rated R for pervasive language, and for some elements of violence and sexuality.
Runtime
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90 min
Awards
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3 nominations
Overwiew :The unlikeliest of best friends, Romeo Brass is a perpetually hungry junior tough guy. Gavin "Knocks" Woolley is an inquisitive skinny kid who limps due to his bad back. They live next door to each other -- each the other's antidote to a landscape of comic losers nad broken-down dreams. The boys meet Morell, a strange, childlike man who spins fanciful stories about run-ins with aliens, ghosts and eerie occurrences; all the while leading the banal existence of a lowlife. When Morell saves Romeo and Gavin from a brutal fight, he becomes their new hero and pal. They become co-conspirators in Morell's tenacious quest to date Romeo's alluring sister, Ladine, but gradually this eccentric and dangerous stranger drives a wedge between the two 12-year-olds which they must overcome in order to salvage the magic of their childhood friendship.
Starring :Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall, Bob Hoskins, Frank Harper, Julia Ford, Paddy Considine, Martin Arrowsmith, Dave Blant, Darren Campbell, Shaun Fields, Ladene Hall, Nicholas Harvey, James Higgins, Vicky McClure, Shane Meadows, Joel Morris, Johann Myers, Tanya Myers, Sammy Pasha, Jamahl Peterkin, James Tomlinson
