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Starred Up

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  • 1h 46m
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Jack O'Connell in Starred Up (2013)
A troubled and explosively violent teenager is transferred to adult prison where he finally meets his match - a man who also happens to be his father.
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Eric Love, 19, is locked up in prison. On his first day, he assaults another inmate and several guards. He's offered group therapy and his dad, an inmate as well, tries to talk sense into hi... Read allEric Love, 19, is locked up in prison. On his first day, he assaults another inmate and several guards. He's offered group therapy and his dad, an inmate as well, tries to talk sense into him. Can he be rehabilitated?Eric Love, 19, is locked up in prison. On his first day, he assaults another inmate and several guards. He's offered group therapy and his dad, an inmate as well, tries to talk sense into him. Can he be rehabilitated?
IMDb RATING
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47K
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    • David Mackenzie
    • Jonathan Asser
  • Stars
    • Jack O'Connell
    • Ben Mendelsohn
    • Rupert Friend
    • David Mackenzie
    • Jonathan Asser
  • Stars
    • Jack O'Connell
    • Ben Mendelsohn
    • Rupert Friend
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    • 185Critic reviews
    • 81Metascore
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    Jack O'Connell and Duncan Airlie James in Starred Up (2013)
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    Jack O'Connell
    Jack O'Connell
    • Eric Love
    Ben Mendelsohn
    Ben Mendelsohn
    • Neville Love
    Rupert Friend
    Rupert Friend
    • Oliver Baumer
    Sam Spruell
    Sam Spruell
    • Deputy Governor Haynes
    Gilly Gilchrist
    Gilly Gilchrist
    • Principal Officer Scott
    Frederick Schmidt
    Frederick Schmidt
    • Officer Gentry
    Edna Caskey
    • Officer Evans
    Darren Hart
    Darren Hart
    • MacDonald
    Raphael Sowole
    Raphael Sowole
    • Jago
    Duncan Airlie James
    Duncan Airlie James
    • Officer White
    Anthony Welsh
    Anthony Welsh
    • Hassan
    David Ajala
    David Ajala
    • Tyrone
    Jerome Bailey
    • Reames
    Basil Abdul-Latif
    • Mubarak
    Matt Faris
    • Officer Hall
    Aisha Bywaters
    Aisha Bywaters
    • Nurse Bankford
    • (as Aisha Walters)
    David Avery
    David Avery
    • Ashley
    Tommy McDonnell
    • Officer Self
      • David Mackenzie
      • Jonathan Asser
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    • Trivia
      The title ("Starred Up") is a term used to describe the early transfer of a criminal from a Young Offender Institution to an adult prison.
    • Goofs
      When Neville jumps the food queue behind Eric, he joins in front of a prisoner with long blonde hair. When the camera switches to a front view the prisoner has changed to a shaven headed male.
    • Quotes

      Eric: I'm just saying. Said this therapy goes well and it changes my life and I rehabilitate. And then you lay it on for the next geezer and it works for him, and the next. And everything's sweet yeah? Crime rates starts to come down, police got less people to nick, courts got less people to convict.

      Eric: Pretty soon you're out of a job.

      Eric: [Prison Guard moans and twitches in discomfort] Do you mind?

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    9/10
    A generally fine effort that brings the brutal world of Brit prisons into the 21st century
    STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning

    Eric Love (Jack O'Connoll) is a couple of years younger than necessary to be transferred from a young offender's institution to an adult prison, but due to his explosively violent nature, a rare exception has been made. He seems under control, until he is disturbed while sleeping by another inmate and ferociously over-reacts. After trying and failing to talk his way out of the situation, his inflamed, anti-authoritarian streak bursts to life and he proves tricky for Governor Hayes (Sam Spruell) and his staff to deal with. From here, he encounters two people who may be the key to turning him round: dedicated social worker Oliver (Rupert Friend) and Neville (Ben Mendolsohn) the equally violent head of the wing...who also happens to be his dad.

    While the harsh reality of prison life is rarely glossed over in any sort of filmed medium, save for maybe Ronnie Barker's hit sitcom Porridge, since the late '70's nothing quite like Alan Clarke's Scum has come close to matching the gritty brutality and hopelessness of prison life, leaving it a genre just begging to be dragged in to the 21st century with a fresh injection of raw adrenaline. The opening half of David Mackenzie's film seems to rely on atmosphere rather than exposition, with a dialogue light opening half as the lead protagonist is lead to his cell, and made to go through the various rituals and indignities on his way there until the door is locked shut. When O'Connoll first speaks (in a cockney accent!) it's with the prison lingo that will make no sense to those who don't know it, and from there on in he frequently opens his mouth with savage ferocity and intense profanity.

    Starred Up is hailed as O'Connoll's 'break through' film, and there's no doubt he's running the show here, firmly commanding his presence as the explosive thug with raging personal issues blaring inside him, in a role that he's got form with and suits well. It's the closest thing he may well have in making him a household name, or at least getting a cult following among some. There are strong supporting turns also from Friend as the impassioned social worker and Mendolsohn as the closest thing to an authority figure O'Connoll will be made to respect. It's a film driven more by the nature of his respective relationships with these two men, and as such it feels more about these human dynamics rather than the story, which by the end has lost it's coherence a bit and loses your attention, despite the ensuing events still holding your attention for other reasons.

    Still, sometimes, a film needs to come along that hits you like a punch in the dark, and Starred Up fits the bill perfectly, a brutal, unflinching expose of a world most of us probably don't want to imagine, a little flawed, but mostly solid. ****
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      • August 26, 2014 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
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      • Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
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