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Director:
Isaac Julien
Writers:
Paul Hallam (writer)
Isaac Julien (writer)
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Release Date:
6 December 1991 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
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Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Valentine Nonyela ... Chris
Mo Sesay ... Caz

Dorian Healy ... Ken
Frances Barber ... Ann

Sophie Okonedo ... Tracy

Jason Durr ... Billibud

Gary McDonald ... Davis
Debra Gillett ... Jill

Eamonn Walker ... Carlton (as Eamon Walker)
James Bowers ... Sparky
Billy Braham ... Kelly
Wayne Norman ... Bigsy
Danielle Scillitoe ... Trish
Ray Shell ... Jeff Kane
Nigel Harrison ... Cid Man
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
La radio pirata (Spain)
Young Soul Rebels: la radio pirata (Spain)
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Runtime:
105 min
Country:
UK | France | Germany | Spain
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR

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6 out of 18 people found the following comment useful:-
rebels without a clue, 31 January 2003
Author: Buck Aroo

I saw this film shortly after it's release, and felt quite cheated. It's title and advertising gave me the impression that it would be about the black DJ sound systems and soul scene which was at it's height in England during the late '70s and early '80s. But this only took up a fraction of film time. Instead, I had to sit through a convoluted sub-plot featuring a murder mystery which appeared all of a sudden during the movie, a very gratuitous gay sex scene, and generally bad acting and direction. There were a few moments where the protagonists had brushes with the law, and I thought at last this film was going somewhere and would depict the racism of the justice system accurately. But this was not the case, and these scenes appeared to have been either badly written, or edited. And when one character deceides to carry out his own murder investigation, I found it laughable. I understand that no film can be 100% accurate when depicting an era or events around it, and that it should be entertaining to the viewer. But at least a good attempt should be made to get the basics right. For example, hardly any of the black male actors sported an afro hairstyle or wore flares, which would have been as common as a rainy day in London during 1977. Blacks mixing with Punks? I'm no sure about that. They would have considered a lot of Punks to be similar to the skinheads which carried out a lot of racist attacks at that time. Also another sex scene featuring Sophie Okenedo and Valentine Nonyela, was not handled well at all, and was certainly not as explicit as the previous gay sex scenes which says a lot about it's director. By trying to show that homosexuality in the black british community is opposed more than in the white, I feel is absolute nonsense. Homophobia has no colour preference, and being black, it's director Isaac Julien should know better really.

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