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This Is England, is the story of a summertime school holiday, those long weeks between terms where life changing events can take place. It’s 1983 and school is out. 12-year-old Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) is an isolated lad growing up in a grim coastal town, whose father has died fighting in the Falklands war.
Over the course of the summer holiday he finds fresh male role models when those in the local skinhead scene take him in. With his new friends Shaun discovers a world of parties, first love and the joys of Dr Martin boots. Here he meets Combo (Stephen Graham), an older, racist skinhead who has recently got out of prison.
As Combo’s gang harass the local ethnic minorities, the course is set for a rite of passage that will hurl Shaun from innocence to experience.
THIS IS ENGLAND – April 27th
WEST END/ LDN CONFIRMED
1. Cineworld Haymarket
2. Cineworld West India Quay Digital
3. Cineworld Fulham Digital
4. Cineworld Enfield Digital
5. Odeon Covent Garden Digital
6. Odeon Camden
7. Odeon Wimbledon
8. Odeon Kingston
9. Electric Notting Hill
10. Ritzy Brixton
11. Curzon Soho
12. Rio Dalston Digital
13. Barbican
14. Tricycle Kilburn
15. Vue Islington
16. Vue Finchley Road
17. Vue Sheperds Bush
18. Vue Croydon Grants
19. Cineworld Wandsworth
20. Cineworld Stevenage
REGIONAL CONFIRMED
1. Bristol Watershed
2. Showroom Sheffield
3. Nottingham Broadway
4. Manchester Cornerhouse
5. Glasgow Film Theatre
6. Parkway Cinema, Cleethorpes
7. Irish Film Institute
8. Queens Film Theatre, Belfast
9. Southampton Harbour Lights
10. Cambridge Arts
11. Brighton Duke of Yorks
12. Edinburgh Cameo
13. Vue Bristol Cribbs Causeway
14. Vue Portsmouth
15. Vue Cheshire Oaks
16. Vue Leeds Light
17. Vue Plymouth
18. Cineworld Glasgow Renfrew Street
19. Cineworld Dublin
20. Cineworld Edinburgh Digital
21. Cineworld Birmingham Broad Street Digital
22. Cineworld Cardiff
23. Cineworld Nottingham Digital
24. Cineworld Sheffield
25. Cineworld Bolton Digital
26. Cineworld Hull Digital
27. Cineworld Boldon Digital
28. Cineworld Middlesbrough Digital
29. Cineworld Didsbury
30. Cineworld Bradford
31. Cineworld Castleford Digital
32. Cineworld Burton upon Trent Digital
33. Cineworld Ashton under Lyme
34. Cineworld Milton Keynes
35. Cineworld Crawley Digital
36. Cineworld Bristol
37. Cineworld Liverpool
38. Cineworld Cambridge
39. Cineworld Brighton
40. Odeon Manchester Filmworks
4th May
1. Liverpool Picturehouse@Fact
2. Greenwich Picturehouse
11th May
Queens – take out
1. Warwick Arts
2. Exeter Picturehouse
3. Leeds Hyde Park
4. Aberdeen Belmont
5. Watermans Brentford
18th May
1. Macrobert Arts, Stirling
2. Birmingham MAC
3. Tyneside Newcastle
4. Chichester New Park
5. Lighthouse Wolverhampton
6. Metro (Quad) Derby
25th May
1. Screen Room Nottingham
2. Forum Northampton
3. Ipswich Film Theatre
4. Poole Arts Lighthouse
5. Chapter Cardiff
6. Aberystwyth Arts
7. Bradford Picville
8. Ritz Belper
1st June
1. Windsor Arts Centre
2. Plymouth Arts Centre
3. South hill Park, Bracknell
4. Empire Consett
8th June
1. Edencourt Inverness
2. Stamford Arts Centre
3. Barn Dartington
4. Curzon Clevedon
5. The Hat Factory, Luton
6. David Lean Cinema, Croydon
15th June
1. Pocklington Arts Centre
2. Thanet Film Society
3. Riverside Hammersmith
4. National Film Theatre
5. Falmouth Arts Centre
6. Hull Screen
7. Dukes Lancaster
June 22nd
1. Courtyard Hereford
2. Norden Farm Maidenhead
3. Old Market Shrewsbury
4. Stoke Film Theatre
5. Savoy Penzance
6. Norwich Cinema City
7. Royal St. Ives
8. Norwich Cinema City
June 29th
1. Studio Cinema Knutsford
2. Saffron Walden Screen
3. Robert Burns Film Theatre
4. Trinity Arts, Gainsborough
July 6th
1. Plough Arts Centre
July 13th
1. Stoke Film Theatre
August 31st
1. Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth
MONDAY 23rd APRIL - NFT screening + Guardian interview with Shane.
Mark & Shane to introduce screening 6.30pm.
Shane Q&A from 8pm.
MONDAY 23rd APRIL - Fopp preview screening by Little White Lies from 6 or 7pm.
FRIDAY 27th APRIL - Manchester Cornerhouse screening from 8.40pm.
Intro from cast arriving 8.15pm.
FRIDAY 27th APRIL - Nottingham Broadway screening from 8.30pm + Q&A at 10.15pm
SATURDAY 28th APRIL - Sheffield Showroom screening from 8pm + Q&A from 9.45pm with Andrew MacIntyre.
With a father killed in the Falklands war, daily bullying and a physique that makes him look even younger than his 12 years, Shaun has a far from idyllic childhood. A loner growing up in a desolate coastal town, his need to find someone or something to believe in leads him into the harrowing world of adulthood.
Thomas ‘Tommo’ Turgoose shares much with the character of Shaun, not least his sense of street savvy. While others were queuing up for the chance to appear in the film, Tommo even had the front to demand payment for attending the auditions. At the time Tommo had little structure in his life, was attending school for only one hour a week, and had been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder, but Shane Meadows was convinced he had found his lead.
Despite a lack of previous acting experience, Tommo’s mix of innocence, hardness and natural talent helped him not only portray the semi-autobiographical character Meadows had originally written, but to also infuse it with his own personality – in turn creating one of the most charismatic and believable portraits of youth ever seen on screen.
This is England Awards