Acting
Jonny Phillips' face says everything his mouth can't.
Direction
Ellis squeezes a feature's worth of tension into 14 minutes.
Director
Simon Ellis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during peak 'Broken Britain' media panic about 'chavs' and ASBOs, the film subtly indicts the fathers who created them.
Won Best Short at Edinburgh and was reportedly almost expanded to feature length—thank god they didn't, the compression is the point.