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Release Date: 2000

Cast: Tim Healy, Charlie Hardwick, Chris Beattie, Ben

Categories: Movies, Comedy-drama

Purely Belter is a 2000 British comedy drama film directed by Mark Herman about two teenagers (Chris Beattie and Greg McLane) trying to get money, by any means necessary, in order to get season tickets for home games played by the FA Premier League football team Newcastle United. It is based on the novel The Season Ticket by Jonathan Tulloch. Other actors in the movie include Roy Hudd, Charlie Hardwick, Tim Healy, Kerry Ann Christiansen and Kevin Whately. There is also a cameo appearance by footballer Alan Shearer, whose car the boys steal. The title is a Geordie dialect expression. Pure... MORE

Purely Belter is a 2000 British comedy drama film directed by Mark Herman about two teenagers (Chris Beattie and Greg McLane) trying to get money, by any means necessary, in order to get season tickets for home games played by the FA Premier League football team Newcastle United. It is based on the novel The Season Ticket by Jonathan Tulloch. Other actors in the movie include Roy Hudd, Charlie Hardwick, Tim Healy, Kerry Ann Christiansen and Kevin Whately. There is also a cameo appearance by footballer Alan Shearer, whose car the boys steal. The title is a Geordie dialect expression. Pure or Purely simply means very, and Belter or Belta means great or good. Despite it being based in Newcastle Upon-Tyne and following Newcastle United F.C, the actors playing Gerry and Sewell are from Sunderland and the phrase "Purely Belter" as spoken in the film has a Mackem (Sunderland dialect) aspect. The phrase is spoken several times in the film, first by Sewell when he and Gerry go skinny dipping after stealing Shearer's car and later when they dream of the freedom they will have when they get money. The events take place over a year, the film being divided into four sections named from the four LESS