Twentyfourseven
Sunday, September 5th, 1999
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Director : Shane Meadows
With : Bob Hoskins, James Hooton, Danny Nussbaum
“Twentyfourseven” is another one of those British films that depict a down and out blue-collar town, where the weather is always a gray and people’s prospects are even grayer. But unlike the hokey sentimentality of “The Full Monty” or “Waking Ned Devine,” this film isn’t scared to tell the sometimes brutal truths behind what’s taking place on the screen.
The movie tells the tale of Darcy (Bob Hoskins) and his attempt to build a boxing club for community kids to help keep them with the drugs and the streets that seem to be leading them in desperate circles. Filmed in striking black and white, director Shane Meadows pays a nod to “Raging Bull,” but adapts an almost “Bad News Bears” sense of youthful camaraderie to the sense of “team” and friendship that is developed through the club.
