NEDs (Non Educated Delinquents) is the story of a young man’s journey from prize-winning schoolboy to knife-carrying teenager. Struggling against the low expectations of those around him, John McGill changes from victim to avenger, scholar to NED, altar boy to glue sniffer. When he attempts to change back again, his new reality and recent past make conformity near impossible and violent self determination near inevitable.
Acting
Conor McCarron's silent rage could cut glass.
Direction
Mullan's autobiographical fury bleeds through every frame.
Production
Glasgow 1972: all concrete, nicotine, and lost futures.
Director
Peter Mullan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Peter Mullan based this on his own 1970s Glasgow adolescence; the school scenes were filmed at his actual alma mater.
NEDs became shorthand for Scottish youth delinquency—Mullan's film arguably cemented the term in UK cultural vocabulary.
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