Boston Kickout is a 1995

1995 in film

-Top grossing films:-Events:* March 22 - The Dogme 95 movement is officially announced in Paris by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.* March 28 - Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett announce their plans for separation....

 British drama

Drama

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 feature film

Feature film

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 written and directed by Paul Hills. It won the Euskal Media Prize at the San Sebastián International Film Festival

San Sebastián International Film Festival

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, Best Actor (John Simm

John Simm

John Simm is an English stage and screen actor. In recent years he is best known for his roles as Sam Tyler in the detective drama Life on Mars and as The Master in the revival of the science fiction series Doctor Who, but he has also starred in many highly acclaimed award-winning television...

) at the Cinema Jove International Film Festival in Valencia and Best Film at the Bermuda International Film Festival.

Plot

An uncompromising rites-of-passage drama set against the backdrop of a typical English "New Town", set in the early Nineties and filmed in the new town of Stevenage

Stevenage

Stevenage is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England. It is situated to the east of junctions 7 and 8 of the A1, and is between Letchworth Garden City to the north, and Welwyn Garden City to the south....

, Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

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Schoolleaver Phil (Simm) - who moved with his father from an inner-city slum to what he was told would be a brighter future in Stevenage - finds himself caught up in a world of unemployment, violence, alcoholism and drug abuse in Nineties Britain.

Cast

• John Simm
  John Simm
  John Simm is an English stage and screen actor. In recent years he is best known for his roles as Sam Tyler in the detective drama Life on Mars and as The Master in the revival of the science fiction series Doctor Who, but he has also starred in many highly acclaimed award-winning television...
  
   as Phil
• Andrew Lincoln
  Andrew Lincoln
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   as Ted
• Marc Warren
  Marc Warren
  Marc Warren is an English actor, known for his British television roles as Danny Blue in Hustle, Dougie Raymond in The Vice and Dominic Foy in State of Play.-Career:...
  
   as Robert
• Emer McCourt as Shona
• Richard Hanson as Steven
• Nathan Valente as Matt

External links

• Boston Kickout at the Internet Movie Database
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• http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/boston_kickout/ Reviews
• http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/135835/Boston-Kickout/overview
• http://www.kamera.co.uk/reviews_extra/boston.php