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Thomas Clay (writer)
Joseph Lang (writer)
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Cast

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Nikki Albon ... Newsreader
Zoey Campbell ... Charlotte
Anne Devlin ... Rose Franklin
Rob Dixon ... John Kramer

Danny Dyer ... Larry Haydn
Sam Gurney ... Toby
Michael Howe ... Jonathan Abbott
Ami Instone ... Marie
Stuart Laing ... Stuart Reeves
Mick Larkin ... Roy Kingsley

Lesley Manville ... Sarah Carmichael (as Leslie Manville)
Corinna McFarlane ... Student Teacher
Charles Mnene ... Ben
Muriaf Salman ... Ussef Abel
Donna Shilling ... Alice
Daniel Spencer ... Robert Carmichael
Hilary Tones ... Ruth
Emma Vance ... Marie's Friend

Miranda Wilson ... Monica Abbott
Ryan Winsley ... Joe
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UK:96 min | Argentina:96 min
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Young people with no respect, 9 October 2006
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Author: boner96 from United Kingdom

Thomas Clay has been mixing with the wrong types. That's the trouble with young people these days, they have no respect.

Seriously this film should be avoided at all costs. The action in the main body of the film is slow and rather stodgy and ambles to the drug crazed ending as if, like it's director, it has no where better to go. We are introduced to the main title character who is a bit of an outsider, we see him at school and at home not quite fitting in, feeling awkward in himself as so many adolescents do. Robert falls in with bad lads and starts missing school and taking drugs and before you know it he is a psycho rapist.

The film is really about Clay's total failure to understand the links between violence imagery and violent acts. Clay seems to think a generation of crazed youth are made evil by scenes of war on our TVs. yet he has filmed the most disgusting piece of SIMULATED violence. Is this guy for real?

If Clay has not seen YouTube perhaps he is naive and unaware of will be done with the brutal climax scene from his film? All anyone will want to see is the most hideous scene from the end of the film and I am sure that will be what sticks with people.

The rest of the film is pointless for in committing such an act of violence to film Clay not only damns young people who are actively engaged in preventing war, he also damns himself as perpetrator of extreme, tasteless violence for no better reason than his own personal celebrity status.

Shame on all involved.

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