Twenty Four Seven
Twenty Four Seven is a 1997 British sports drama film directed and written by Shane Meadows. It was co-written by frequent Meadows collaborator Paul Fraser.
Plot
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins), a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in; boxing. Soon, he opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs start to grow together into friends. Darcy manages to organise a public fight for them to prove what they have learned. A training camp with hiking tours into the mountains of Wales forge the group into a tightly knit club society. With the day of the fight drawing closer, the young boxers get more and more excited.
Awards
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| author | Paul Fraser Shane Meadows |
|---|---|
| award | European Film Award for Best Actor |
| contentLocation | Nottingham |
| director | Shane Meadows |
| editor | William Diver |
| events | boxing community identity social alienation |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | box draw hike nothing training camp young people |
| musicBy | Boo Hewerdine Neill MacColl |
| nomination | European Film Award for Best Actor |
| producer | Imogen West |
| productionCompany | BBC Films October Films |
| publisher | Pathé |
| theme | sports teen drama |