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Awaydays - BLU-RAY Version (2009) Certificate 18

Awaydays - BLU-RAY Version
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Rated 2.0 stars
Average rating
(44%)
 
Starring: Nicky Bell | Stephen Graham | Liam Boyle | Lee Battle | Sean Ward | Michael Ryan | Holliday Grainger | Sacha Parkinson | Oliver Lee | Ian Puleston-Davies | Holly Grainger
Director: Pat Holden
Studio: OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 105 mins
Genres: Drama
Languages: English
Released: September 28, 2009

Paul Carty (Nicky Bell - LIFE ON MARS, CREEP) is a teenager driven out of his mind with boredom. Living a dull, suburban existence in the shadow of his dead mother and grieving father, Paul craves excitement and that's exactly what he finds when he meets Elvis (Liam Boyle - ROBIN HOOD, SPOOKS) who introduces him to a gang known as The Pack. But all is not what it seems and Paul soon discovers that Elvis is disenchanted by The Pack and for all it stands. Although Elvis does his utmost to dissuade Paul from joining the gang, recognising a kinship between them that seems impossible with the other 'nobodies' within, Paul is drawn into the group by his fascination with their dark and vicious world.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 0.0 stars
Homo erotica

MrGee from , 15th December, 2009

Do Not Rent This Film if you are male. Awaydays you pick this up expecting a bit of Football violence, some lads having a good time and a bit of witty banter. Think ID, think Football Factor, think the Firm and this film couldn't be further from it. This film is set around the relationship between two blokes and although it it not directly implyed, one really wants to shag the other. This is a gay art house film that would never (and should never) have been made, but throw in a bit of football violence and get funding off the back of Football Factor. Avoid at all costs.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 5.0 stars
Outstanding, powerful and emotional

Mark Winter from Suffolk, 17th November, 2009

This is a very poweful and very emotional film. I rented this with the sole intentent of watching football violence. However this is not a football film, nor is is a football violence or fighing film. I cannot stress this highly enough. There are elements of fighting, but these are simply there to portray one of the characters violent lifestyle. This is the story behind two young men trying to find out exactly who they are in life. The first called Carty comes from a middle class family in what he doesn't appreciate as a very privaledged upbringing. He has a good job, a college qualification, and a decent house and a caring family. The second is a young man called Elvis. He comes from a lower working class upbringing. He lives in a grotty house, has no family, and worst of all is with the wrong crowd. He feels as though the area in which he was born means that certain opportunities provided to people like Carty are closed firmly shut to people like Elvis. The real irony here, and the basis of the story, is that middle class Carty is attracted by Elvis's violent lifestyle, and Elvis is attracted by Carty's middle class lifestyle. A further irony is that Elvis is very intelligent. There is a real twist that is easy to spot quite early on, but just in case you do not I will not spoil it. Elvis's friends are invloved in football violence, and being a football fan Carty is really attracted by this 'glamorous' way of life, and wants a part of if. Elvis knows what this will mean for Carty if Carty gets involved with Elvis's friends, and does his best to keep Carty seperate from them. However Carty is persistant, and Elvis soon understands that he cannot keep Carty from meeting his friends for much longer. The film powerfully portrays events prior to Carty and Elvis meeting, and events after they meet. The film brilliantly portrays events in 1979 Liverpool. The music, clubs, haircuts, clothes etc. The attention to detail is amazing. This film can be watched for just the violence, and if so this is a 3 star film. If you watch the powerful and emotional plot, then this is a fantastic 5 star film, and one of the best I have seen in the past few years.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 2.0 stars
awaydays

5starTony from , 28th October, 2009

worth a watch and quite close to the book. 2.5 stanley knives out of 5!

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Rated 0.0 stars
'Awaydays

corbo37 from , 22nd December, 2009

disc was broken so couldnt watch

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Rated 2.0 stars
You would rather eat your own head

Thompsonic from from Hemel Hempstead, 9th December, 2009

Absolute crap; not even any grumble/smut to drag this out of the mire - avoid at all costs

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Rated 1.0 stars
Dreadful film

A Customer from Lingfield, 18th November, 2009

This is a poor attempt to create an arty film about a pseudo romance between two young men against a backdrop of late 1970s/early 1980s Merseyside and football hooliganism. It totally fails to evoke the era authentially - you need more than a cool soundtrack, brown wallpaper and a few wispy fringes to do that. Instead it creates a bizarre alternative dimension where everyone has unlimited money to spend, women are all desperate to have s3x with strangers and you can go around stabbing and nutting people (including policemen!) without any recriminations. But, worst of all, it's dull. That's the biggest flaw of all with this film. One to avoid, unless you fancy a wasted evening.

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