Jamie Gilliam is a bright young rising star with Castlefield City, a first division club on the verge of promotion to the premiership. When lapdancing student Sharon goes out to a club with friends she bumps into him and ends up going back to his place. She wakes up the next day feeling ill and not being able to remember how she got naked in his bed. When she later goes to the police charging rape no-one believes her and the club settles with her privately to keep her quiet. But is Jamie as clean cut as he appears?
Acting
Kenny Doughty's chilling charm masks genuine menace.
Writing
Refuses easy catharsis—justice here is murky, expensive, incomplete.
Director
Douglas Mackinnon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during early 2000s UK football celebrity culture, when young Premier League players dominated tabloids—the film weaponizes that specific media moment.
Douglas Mackinnon later directed Doctor Who; this early work shows his skill at making institutional spaces feel claustrophobic and hostile.
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