Twenty Four Seven (film)

Twenty Four Seven
Twenty Four Seven
Directed by	Shane Meadows
Written by	Paul Fraser; Shane Meadows
Produced by	Imogen West
Starring	Bob Hoskins
Cinematography	Ashley Rowe
Edited by	William Diver
Music by	Boo Hewerdine; Neil MacColl
Production; companies	BBC Films; Scala Films
Distributed by	Guild Pathé Cinema
Release dates	31 August 1997 (Venice Film Festival); 3 April 1998 (United Kingdom);
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	$0.8 million

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. Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins), a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, tries to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in, boxing. He opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs merge together into a group of friends. Darcy organises a public fight for them to prove what they have learned. A training camp with hiking tours into the mountains of Wales forges the group into a tightly knit club society. With the day of the fight drawing closer, the young boxers get more and more excited.

Cast

Bob Hoskins as Alan Darcy
Danny Nussbaum as Tim
Justin Brady as Gadget
James Hooton as Wolfman Knighty
Darren O. Campbell as Daz
Karl Collins as Stuart
Johann Myers as Benny
Jimmy Hynd as Meggy
Mat Hand as Wesley Fagash
James Corden as Tonka
Frank Harper as Ronnie Marsh
Bruce Jones as Tim's Dad
Jo Bell as Jo

Reception

The film received very favourable press on release in the UK, including five star reviews from publications including Empire. It subsequently performed well at UK awards ceremonies. At the 1998 BAFTA Awards, it was nominated for the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film. At the 1998 British Independent Film Awards, Meadows won the Douglas Hickox Award and the film was nominated in the Best British Independent Film category. Meadows won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1997 Venice Film Festival.

The film grossed £235,126 in the United Kingdom, $212,000 in Australia, $92,000 in the United States and $70,000 in Italy, Germany and Spain^[1] ^[2]^[3] for a worldwide total in excess of $767,000.

External links

References

^ "British biz at the box office". Variety. 14 December 1998. p. 72.
^ Dawtrey, Adam (14 December 1998). "Brit pix venture abroad". Variety. p. 74.
^ Twenty Four Seven at Box Office Mojo

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[1] "British biz at the box office". Variety. 14 December 1998. p. 72.

[2] Dawtrey, Adam (14 December 1998). "Brit pix venture abroad". Variety. p. 74.

[3] Twenty Four Seven at Box Office Mojo

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v t e Works by Shane Meadows
Feature films	Small Time (1996) Twenty Four Seven (1997) A Room for Romeo Brass (1999) Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002) Dead Man's Shoes (2004) This Is England (2006) Somers Town (2008) Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009) The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (2013)
Television	This Is England '86 (2010) This Is England '88 (2011) This Is England '90 (2015) The Virtues (2019) The Gallows Pole (2023)