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Release Date: 1997 Cast: Maureen O'Grady, Sarah Thom, Gina Aris, Annette Badland, James Hooton, Darren O. Campbell, Bob Hoskins, Bruce Jones, Johann Myers, Sun Hand, Colin Higgins, Matt Hand ...MORE
Cast: Maureen O'Grady, Sarah Thom, Gina Aris, Annette Badland, James Hooton, Darren O. Campbell, Bob Hoskins, Bruce Jones, Johann Myers, Sun Hand, Colin Higgins, Matt Hand, Sammy Pasha, Jo Bell, Frank Harper, Jimmy Hynd, Anthony Clarke, Dena Smiles, James Corden, Krishan Beresford, Karl Collins, Toby, Ladene Hall, Danny Nussbaum, Justin Brady ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Sports, Comedy, Romance Film, Boxing Twenty Four Seven is a 1997 film directed and written by Shane Meadows. It was co-written by frequent Meadows collaborator Paul Fraser.
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins), a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Soon he opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs start to grow together into friends. Darcy manages to organize a... MORE
Twenty Four Seven is a 1997 film directed and written by Shane Meadows. It was co-written by frequent Meadows collaborator Paul Fraser.
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins), a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Soon he opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs start to grow together into friends. Darcy manages to organize a public fight for them to prove what they have learned. A training camp with hiking tours into the mountains of Wales forge the group into a tight-knit club society. With the day of the fight drawing closer, the young boxers get more and more excited.
The film received very favourable press on release in the UK, including five star reviews from publications including Empire. It subsequently performed well at UK awards ceremonies. At the 1998 BAFTA Awards, it was nominated for the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film. At the 1998 British Independent Film Awards, Meadows won the Douglas LESS
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