The Young Americans (1993)

Director:

Danny Cannon

Writers:

Danny Cannon (writer) &
David Hilton (writer)

Release Date:

8 October 1993 (UK)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

London Is Not Only Losing Her Soul To The Americans, She's Selling It.

Plot:

The London police is having trouble with organized crime commited by juvenile delinquents. Their leader...

Plot Keywords:

American Abroad | Police | Bar | Drugs | Gangster

Cast

Harvey Keitel	...	John Harris
Iain Glen	...	Edward Foster
John Wood	...	Richard Donnelly
Terence Rigby	...	Sidney Callow
Keith Allen	...	Jack Doyle
Craig Kelly	...	Christian O'Neill
Thandie Newton	...	Rachael Stevens
Viggo Mortensen	...	Carl Frazer
Dave Duffy	...	Louis Carnegie
Geoffrey McGivern	...	Brian Carver
Nigel Clauzel	...	Lionel Stevens
Huggy Leaver	...	Mark Byrne
Dig Wayne	...	Gary Washington
Christopher Adamson	...	Billy Cohen (as Chris Adamson)
James Duggan	...	Dermot O'Neill

Runtime:

UK:103 min | Brazil:104 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 | Australia:M | Norway:18 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Jacob Street Studios, Jacob Street, Bermondsey, London, England, UK

Company:

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

Trivia:

During one of the club scenes, a remix of Nine Inch Nails' "Gave Up" is playing. This version has never been released officially or unofficially and the only know fragment can be heard in this movie. It appears to be an alteration of the remix found on NIN's EP "Fixed."

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Kicking and Screaming (1995)

Soundtrack:

Uberman

No computer generated effects low budget film

The Young Americans is set in London in the mid 1990s. The plot basically surrounds the London drugs trade and the British Police's crack down on it. Well what could be easier than that? Add Harvey Keitel as an American 'visiting adviser' from the DEA and a few shady characters.

In whole its not a bad film, its over ten years old now and was obviously low budget! A scene where a Ford Granada explodes it clearly goes bang, and just as well because I doubt they could afford another to do it again.

Cropping up in the film is a character called Chris who adds the love elements to the movie, played by Craig Kelly, who later finds more TV fame in the UK version of Queer as Folk.

The annoying thing about this movie is the over acting "British" voice, making Harvey Keitel sound very American and the British officers toffy noised! For a movie made and set in London it is a poor feature.