In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, 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 organize 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 tight-knit club society. With the day of the fight drawing closer, the young boxers get more and more excited.
| Release Date: | Aug 1997 |
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| Genre: | Comedy / Drama / Sport |
| Awards: | 12 wins & 5 nominations |
| Cast: | Danny Nussbaum (Tim), Tony (Woody (the Dog)), Bob Hoskins (Alan Darcy), Bruce Jones (Tim's Dad (Geoff)), Annette Badland (Tim's Mother (Pat)), Justin Brady (Gadget), James Hooton ('Wolfman' Knighty), Darren O. Campbell (Daz (as Darren Campbell)), Krishan Beresford (Young Darcy), Karl Collins (Stuart), Anthony Clarke (Youngy), Johann Myers (Benny), Jimmy Hynd (Meggy), Mat Hand (Wesley Fagash), Dominic Dillon (Court Security Man (as Lord Dominic...), Ian Smith (Prosecutor), Tanya Myers (Sally the Judge), Frank Harper (Ronnie Marsh), James Corden (Tonka (Carl Marsh)), Tony Nyland (Gadget's Dad), Collin Higgins (Knighty's Dad (Adrian)), Jo Bell (Jo), Pamela Cundell (Auntie Iris), Gina Aris (Sharon), Sammy Pasha (Jimmy Marsh), Paul Fraser (Photographer), Ladene Hall (Daz's Girlfriend (Pob)), Dena Smiles (Meggy's girlfriend (Leslie)), John Baxter (Man outside Shop), Maureen O'Grady (Knighty's Mom (Janet)), Shane Meadows (Man with Saucepan on Head (as Lord...), Ben Rothwell (Man selling Flowers), Ron Bissel (Boxing Match Judge), Mick Bleakley (Boxing Match Judge), Derek Osborne (Boxing Match Judge), Derek Groombridge (Staffordshire Coach), Liam Walsh (Staffordshire Boxer), Kevin Wallace (Staffordshire Boxer), Dave Miller (Phil 'The Animal' Yates), Vincent Keane (Stephen S. Stephenson Jr. (as Ginger...), Sun Hand (Jordon Fangash), Sarah Thom (Fangash's Girl (Louise)) |