When 17-year-old Johnjo gives his cousin and his friends a lift, he finds himself implicated in a stabbing.
Acting
Nico Mirallegro's silently shattered performance.
Writing
Jimmy McGovern's brutal, economic dialogue.
Direction
Intimate close-ups that refuse to look away.
Director
David Blair
Nico Mirallegro
Johnjo O'Shea
Susan Lynch
Margaret Ward
Daniel Mays
Tommy Ward
Jodhi May
Coleen O'Shea
Andrew Tiernan
Peter O'Shea
Robert Pugh
DI Hastings
Andrew Ellis
Kieran Gillespie
Finn Atkins
Karen O'Shea
Louise Delamere
DC Jane Pearson
Michael Gambon
Judge
Michelle Fairley
Shelagh
Ben Smith
Patrick O'Shea
Dean Smith
Hugo Davies
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nico Mirallegro was 23 playing 17; his baby-faced anxiety is entirely acted.
Jimmy McGovern based this on real joint enterprise cases that disproportionately prosecuted working-class and Black teenagers in the UK.
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