Awaydays
Synopsis
Based on the classic novel by Kevin Sampson, and pulsating to a soundtrack of Joy Division, The Cure, Magazine, Echo & The Bunnymen and Ultravox, Awaydays examines identity, fate, the nature of male longings and their need to belong. It is the first major feature film to be set during, and evocatively portray, the first dawning of the football casual fashion cult. Quadrophenia meets Control? Trainspotting meets Stand By Me? Awaydays is all of these - 'A Catcher In The Rye' with switchblades.
Details
- Year
- 2009
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 104 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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Pat Holden
- Producer
- Kevin Sampson, Howard Klein
- Co-Producer
- Kevin Sampson, Howard Klein
- Editor
- Mark Elliott
- Screenwriter
- Kevin Sampson
- Director of Photography
- Curtes Lee Mitchell
- Production Designer
- Mark Tanner
- Sound
- Richard Davey
- Composer
- Daviid A Hughes
- Principal cast
- Nicky Bell, Liam Boyle, Stephen Graham
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Red Union Films
Multimedia House51 New Chester Road
New Ferry
Wirral CH62 1AA
UK
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