Description
Bloody Kids 1980
1h 31min | Drama | TV Movie 23 March 1980
Storyline:
The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike. Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), the boys arrange a staged knife fight outside a football stadium with the aid of a bag of stage blood and a real blade.
User review:
This little-seen and under-appreciated film accurately captures the bleakness and alienation of youth like few other films succeed in doing. It was shown on New Zealand television about 20 years ago and I’ve never had a chance to see it again. But I remember great direction, music, and atmosphere. Takes its place among the late-70s/early 80s British classics, the quality of which seems to be gone forever – see Meantime, Made in Britain, and anything in that period by Mike Leigh. To think that this was made by Stephen Frears who now gives us dreck like Mrs Henderson and The Queen is truly dispiriting.
Director: Stephen Frears
Writers: Stephen Poliakoff (original idea), Stephen Poliakoff (screenplay)
Stars: Derrick O’Connor, Gary Holton, Richard Thomas
allan (verified owner) –
initial downloading had foreign language but replacement link quickly sent and fine now. good quality and pleased with purchase