Four lads, one bad plan, zero brain cells — British kitchen-sink chaos at its finest.
Four lads decide to meet up and do a robbery planned by Sweeny, an angry, agressive but small young man who is like a time bomb waiting to go off. The robbery never happens because the boys soon realise Sweeny hasn't put enough thought into the job. His closest friend Tel has a more gentle side to him and falls for a girl at a party called Kak. Gombo is released from a young offenders, and along with Tony finds Sweeny to give him a kicking which actually ends up with Sweeny giving Gombo a kicking! In the end they find an empty house where the owners are away on holiday so they decide to break in. This doesn't quite go to plan either.
Acting
Steve Sweeney's barely-contained rage is genuinely unsettling.
Direction
Phil Davis keeps it raw, no glam — just ugly truth.
Writing
Dialogue so natural you'll swear you went to school with these idiots.
Director
Phil Davis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Phil Davis directed this before his acclaimed acting run in 'Vera' and 'Line of Duty' — his eye for working-class tension started here.
Part of the lost wave of post-'Scum' British TV movies that Channel 4 buried — most prints degraded or vanished.
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