Details
Director: Shane Meadows
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello
Running Time: 75 Minutes
Status: US – 24/4/08 / UK – 22/8/08
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Synopsis: Tommo, a troubled young lad who‘s run away to London, meets Marek, a shy Polish teenager who shares a small flat with his labourer father in a rundown area. When Marek agrees to let Tommo stay with them, unbeknownst to his father, the pair form a strong bond as they work odd jobs for an eccentric neighbour and compete for the attention of Maria, a beautiful French waitress, and try to avoid discovery by Marek‘s father.
Reviews
As he was in his debut This Is England, Turgoose – two years older, seemingly two feet ganglier – is a quicksilvery mirror of mood, his character a twitch of meaty jabs against the limits of his acting skill.
What Town? Somers what? Somers Town is a place name that appears on the London A-Z street map, superimposed in capitals on the area around St Pancras and King’s Cross, tending to baffle those Londoners who notice it.
The Independent – Anthony Quinn
This squib started out as a gleam in an adman’s eye. The young British director Shane Meadows was hired to make a short promoting the new Eurostar terminal at St Pancras, but the film-makers decided they could parlay it into a feature – just.
