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9 May 1997 (USA)
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Rugby. Tom Jones. Male Voice Choirs. Shirley Bassey. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantisiliogogogch. Snowdonia. Prince of Wales. Anthony Hopkins. Daffodils. Sheep. Sheep Lovers. Coal. Slate Quarries. The Blaenau Ffestiniog Dinkey-Doo Miniature Railway. Now If That's Your Idea Of Thousands Of Years Of Welsh Culture, You Can't Blame Us For Trying To Liven The Place Up A Little Can You? more
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Twin Town opens with wide sweeping shots of seaside Swansea; to be the place of action for the next one and a half hours...
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A GEM - the unpolished Black Opal of the film industry...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Llyr Ifans | ... | Julian Lewis (as Llyr Evans) |
 | Rhys Ifans | ... | Jeremy Lewis |
| Dorien Thomas | ... | Greyo |
 | Dougray Scott | ... | Terry Walsh |
| Buddug Williams | ... | Mrs. Mort |
| Ronnie Williams | ... | Mr. Mort |
| Huw Ceredig | ... | Fatty Lewis |
| Rachel Scorgie | ... | Adie Lewis |
| Di Botcher | ... | Jean Lewis |
| Mary Allen | ... | Olive |
| Paul Durden | ... | Taxi Driver |
| David Hayman | ... | Dodgy |
 | Kevin Allen | ... | TV Presenter |
| Brian Hibbard | ... | Dai Reese |
| Morgan Hopkins | ... | Chip Roberts |
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99 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:16 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:MA |
Canada:18A |
Finland:K-16 |
France:-12 |
Germany:16 (w) |
Norway:18 |
Portugal:M/18 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R
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The film is filled with director Kevin Allen's family appearing in tiny roles. His mother and several aunties appear early on talking to a taxi driver, a uncle is the man getting a hand-job in the massage parlour and brother Keith is the farmer who eats a spiked hot-dog.
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Jeremy Lewis:
What's your handicap, Bryn?
[Smashes golf club into Bryn's knee]
Bryn Cartwright: [In agony, with tape over his mouth] MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
Jeremy Lewis: Not bad.
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[Smashes golf club into Bryn's knee]
Bryn Cartwright: [In agony, with tape over his mouth] MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
Jeremy Lewis: Not bad.
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Bad Behaviour
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Very very funny.
A sleeper hiding in the dusty back shelves of the video store, that I took out one night with curiosity and no expectations. I'm three-quarters English, a quarter Welsh and have spent a long time in Australia, but I don't think it was just the Welsh part of me that enjoyed this movie.
I loved its roughness, its quirkiness, its lack of perfection and its reality and sure! some of the characters were grubby, superficial and less than enervating.
This is a loosely woven picture of reality in an under-privileged urban environment with all the mundanity, idiocy, drama, violence, beauty and humour of everyday life that eddies around us, and in this instance, the Lewis twins. There are a couple of truly hilarious scenes that very few actors could emulate, but the twins in the movie are twins in real life and it flows naturally.
Revenge escalates inevitably beyond the frivolous into the 'deadly' serious with a speed and abandonment that has you gasping. But unlike some movies that lose it at the end, this one magically gathers in all the loose threads and delivers a finale of epic proportions that elegantly spans the coldly ruthless and the vauntingly sublime and leaves you with a sense of deep justice.
GREAT. This is the sort of stuff the Americans don't do very often or very well, and mostly misunderstand when someone else does it properly. This was done properly.
Reviewers disappointed by an inevitable comparison with Trainspotting obviously missed a lot of the subtle stuff in both movies that is exclusive to the towns, times and cultures they portray. They got sidetracked by the 'big' issues ....
Shelve your preconceptions, grab the remote and replay all those bits that are hard to catch if your ear isn't tuned to the accent. Sure it helps if bad language doesn't get in the way of enjoyment, but let's face it, you should be used to those Anglo-Saxon and Gaelic words by now - so if you can handle it, this one's a delight - but it'll never be mainstream.