Nov 2nd
Green Street*            

(US/GB 2004)

Universal/Odd Lot Entertainment/Baker Street/Yank Film Finance. 107m.

An expelled Harvard student visits his sister in London where he is indoctrinated into a gang of football hooligans.
Unpleasant but all too authentic violent melodrama in the spirit of A Clockwork Orange, in a setting familiar to viewers of Eastenders. The central device of the American student falling in with thugs doesn't really convince, but the other actors provide some strong characterisation, carried along in a forceful but compelling style.

Written by: Dougie Brimson, Joshua Selov, Lexi Alexander.
Producers: Deborah Del Prete, Gigi Pritzker.
Director: Lexi Alexander.
Starring: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Marc Warren, Clare Forlani, Leo Gregory, Rafe Spall, Henry Goodman.
Photography: Alexander Buono.
Music: Christopher Franke.
Editing: Paul Trejo.

Roger Ebert review

Preceded by:
Netherland Dwarf*
(Australia 2008. Aquarius Films/Qoob. 15m.; A boy wants a rabbit from his lonely father, but they both end up with just each other.; w, d: David Michod; s: Jack Egan, Ewen Leslie, Mirrah Foulkes.)