Down Terrace R
You're only as good as the people you know.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 18, 2011
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Julia Deakin, Luke Hartney, Gareth Tunley, Bob Hill, Michael Smiley, Tony Way, Simon Smith, Kitty Blue, Simon Walker, Robin Hill, Kerry Peacock, Janet Hill, Kali Peacock, Mark Kempner, David Schaal & Paul George | |
Directed by | Ben Wheatley | |
Screenwriting by | Robin Hill & Ben Wheatley | |
Composition by | Jim Williams | |
Director of Photography: | Laurie Rose |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
A film that is compelling in its own right, while also functioning meta-referentially - as a commentary on the gangster and kitchen sink genres it so mercilessly distorts.
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Patrick Nabarro
Rating: A- --
A dark and hilarious thwomping of the whole miserablist British gangster genre.
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Entertainment Weekly
DOWN TERRACE is long on talk but generates its own internal rhythms and pace that makes it feel bracing and vibrantly alive.
Los Angeles Times
3 stars out of 5 -- [N]pthing and no one is asked to say or do anything they can't make believable, thus everything, even the preposterous, is perfectly plausible if not also hysterical and terribly disturbing.
Box Office
[Julia Deakin's] Ma Barker role (and performance) is essential to the film's grotesque yet enthralling familial fatalism.
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Film Comment Magazine
When DOWN TERRACE gets in a good groove, Wheatley and Hill's dialogue is both funny and pointed...
A.V. Club
Its litany of outrageous abuses and horrible crimes, as it careens from delicately phrased dinner-table insults to old ladies murdered in the street, is often gaspingly, ridiculously funny.
Salon.com
Product Description:
A family on the wrong side of the law has some serious business to attend to in this black comedy from British filmmaker Ben Wheatley. Karl (Robin Hill) followed his father, Bill (Robert Hill), into the family business, which in this case happens to be organized crime, and their occupational hazards become obvious when the two return to the family home after a few days in jail. Bill is convinced that one of their associates has been talking to the police, and whoever it is needs to be silenced as soon as possible, but first they have to figure out who is the snitch. As Karl and Bill ponder the likely suspects as their allies stop by the house to check in on them -- including well-connected Uncle Eric (David Schaal), shady nightclub manager Garvey (Tony Way), crooked politician Councilor Berman (Mark Kempner), and enforcer Pringle (Michael Smiley) -- Karl gets some unexpected news from his girlfriend, Valda (Kerry Peacock), who announces that she's pregnant with his child. Karl isn't certain he's ready for the responsibilities of parenthood, and Bill and his wife, Maggie (Julia Deakin), aren't very excited about being grandparents, but the upcoming addition to the family becomes a secondary concern after Bill decides he's figured out who's the rat in the organization. DOWN TERRACE screened at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival.