Project Detail

SoulBoy

Synopsis

It's 1974 in the Midlands where power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on football terraces are the norm. Joe McCain (Martin Compston: The Disappearance of Alice Creed) and best friend Russ Mountjoy (Alfie Allen: Atonement) are stuck in dead-end jobs and bored with lives going nowhere. That is until Joe meets Jane (Nichola Burley: Streetdance 3D), a brassy, blond hairdresser who introduces him to a whole new world of sound and movement and all-night dancing: the Wigan Casino, home of Northern Soul.

Mandy (Felicity Jones: The Tempest, Cemetery Junction), a cute, aspiring artist, is eager to help Joe become the cool 'soul boy' he wants to be. Mandy falls for Joe and a love triangle develops with Jane and Mandy, and Joe has to decide who he really wants in his life. Along the way, they all get swept up in the soul scene, testing each other and confronting darker sides of the scene and their own souls.

SoulBoy also stars Craig Parkinson (Control, Four Lions), Jo Hartley (This is England '86) and Irish superstar Pat Shortt (Garage) and features a soundtrack of all the era's anthems and a new cover of Magic Carpet Ride by soul sensation Gabriella Cilmi.

Details

Year: 2010
Type of film: Features
Running time: 84 mins
Director: Shimmy Marcus
Producer: Christine Alderson
Editor: Andrew Hulme
Screenwriter: Jeff Williams
Director of Photography: Vladimir Trivic
Production Designer: Rachel Payne
Composer: Lee Arran
Principal cast: Martin Compston, Nichola Burley, Felicity Jones, Alfie Allen, Craig Parkinson, Jo Hartley, Pat Shortt

Genre

Comedy Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Ipso Facto Films

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Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5DW
UK

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Moviehouse Entertainment

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1974. Power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the terraces. Flares, Chopper bikes and beer at fourteen pence a pint. Joe McCain, 17 and restless, is bored with the flatline tedium of a life that seems like it's going nowhere, and a best mate he's drifting apart from.<br /> <br /> Enter Jane, moving to the beat of a music that Joel's never heard, a vision of loveliness who opens the door to a whole world of sound, sex, and all-nighter dancing at The Wigan Casino - the home of Northern Soul! Swept along on this tide of pulsating dance and lust, Joe finally finds somewhere he belongs, and the acceptance and true love he yearns for.

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