Neds
Some people need to be taught a lesson
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 14 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 23, 2011
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: New Video Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Conor McCarron, Marianna Palka & Peter Mullan | |
Directed by | Peter Mullan | |
Edited by | Colin Monie | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Mullan | |
Composition by | Craig Armstrong | |
Produced by | Olivier Delbosc, Alain de la Mata & Marc Missonnier | |
Director of Photography: | Roman Osin |
Entertainment Reviews:
The result of this gamble is a visceral, raw film free of any pretense.
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Daily News Egypt
A stringent street psychodrama in which brutality is an infection and every male is a carrier.
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NPR
3 stars out of 5 -- Peter Mulan captures the innate adolescent fear of empty playgrounds and thrumming schoolyards and his Glasgow is flooded with lively colours...
Empire
This angry film is a forceful slice of life, clearly indebted to the realism of Ken Loach, in whose My Name Is Joe Mullan starred, and to whose Kes it nods.
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Guardian
Rating: 8/10 --
Kudos to Peter Mullan for this fine bit of history and excellent social commentary.
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Monsters and Critics
[T]he telling is fresh; set in the mean streets of 1970s Glasgow, the film is a deft fusion of period detail, kitchen-sink grit and heightened cinematic reality.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
There's a sense of inevitability about things, certainly, but it seems less written in the stars than unhappily scratched onto the kerb with a flicknife by John himself.
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Digital Spy
Product Description:
A young man discovers how hard it can be to live down the reputation your family sets for you in this powerful drama. It's 1972, and John McGill (Gregg Forrest) has just completed grade school in Glasgow. John received excellent marks and has high hopes for middle school. However, his older brother Benny (Joe Szula) is well remembered at the school as a troublemaker and the leader of a youth gang, so John finds his teachers have low expectations of him, and offer him few opportunities to prove them wrong. When John is rejected by one of his new friends, Julian (Martin Bell), because his mother believes John is beneath their station, he finds some much needed respect in the company of Fergie (John Joe Hay), a gang leader who knows of Benny's fearsome reputation. Within two years, John (now played by Conor McCarron) has transformed himself into a "NED" -- "non-educated delinquent" in the school system's lingo -- and has exceeded his teachers' worst expectations of him. John has become enough of a thug to even put fear in the heart of his father, an unstable alcoholic with a propensity for violence. NEDS was written and directed by actor turned filmmaker Peter Mullan, who also plays John's father.