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Mood:
- GloomyTouching
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Plot:
- Juvenile DelinquencySocial MisfitsGoing StraightStarting OverHaunted By the PastCrimesMind and SoulSociety more...
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Genres:
- Drama
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary
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Place:
- EnglandEurope
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Based on:
- Based on BookBased on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Boy A, 2007
English
UK
Profile of Boy A
Boy A can be described as gloomy and touching. The plot revolves around going straight, juvenile delinquency, and starting over. The main genre is drama. In approach, Boy A is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is located in England. Boy A takes place in contemporary times. It is originally a true story and based on a book.
Summary of Boy A
Bright futures are undercut by dark pasts in BOY A, a quiet, ruminative tale about a violent act committed by a man in his tormented youth, and his haunting inability to find a way to have a peaceful adulthood years later. Fresh out of a 14-year prison sentence, 24-year-old Jack (Andrew Garfield) arrives in Manchester looking for a new start. He has a new name, a new job, and a carefully sealed criminal record, but an entire boyhood spent behind bars has left him permanently looking over his shoulder. Guided by his fatherly caseworker, Terry (Peter Mullan), Jack attempts to forge meaningful ties with a local girl and a chatty co-worker, but what happiness he finds is challenged when his true identity seeps (and then floods) through the cracks of his new façade.
Directed with claustrophobic flair by John Crowley (INTERMISSION), BOY A unfolds in tight hallways and on narrow roads; for Jack, even in freedom, every room's a prison. As the story of Jack's new life moves forward, sharply lit flashbacks continually offer new details of his childhood crime. The backward glances work as both a compelling narrative technique and a glimpse into Jack's conscience (and the viewer's); the harsh reminder of his former self seem to play endlessly in his mind, impossible to reconcile with the gentle, introspective adult he longs to become.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 25 April 2008 |
| Runtime: | 106 min |
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as Jack Burridge
as Terry
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Critics Reviews
Salon.com
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- by: Andrew O'Hehir
The New York Times
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- by: Stephen Holden
Users Reviews
- 30.December.2010
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- by: Chris Merritt
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