Twenty Four Seven is a 1997 British sports drama film directed and written by Shane Meadows. It was co-written by frequent Meadows collaborator Paul Fraser.
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Directed by | Shane Meadows |
Written by | Paul Fraser Shane Meadows |
Produced by | Imogen West |
Starring | Bob Hoskins |
Cinematography | Ashley Rowe |
Edited by | William Diver |
Music by | Boo Hewerdine Neil MacColl |
Production companies | October Films BBC Films Scala Films |
Distributed by | Guild Pathé Cinema |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Box office | £235,126 (UK)[1] |
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins), a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in; boxing. Soon, he opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs start to grow together into friends. Darcy manages to organise a public fight for them to prove what they have learned. A training camp with hiking tours into the mountains of Wales forge the group into a tightly knit club society. With the day of the fight drawing closer, the young boxers get more and more excited.
The film received very favourable press on release in the UK, including five star reviews from publications including Empire. It subsequently performed well at UK awards ceremonies. At the 1998 BAFTA Awards, it was nominated for the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film. At the 1998 British Independent Film Awards, Meadows won the Douglas Hickox Award and the film was nominated in the Best British Independent Film category. Meadows won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1997 Venice Film Festival.
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