Motorbikes, fast cars, punch-ups and 80's music. Set on the streets of 1980s Bristol (UK), this retro flick follows a council estate kid out to settle the score with local thieves.Motorbikes, fast cars, punch-ups and 80's music. Set on the streets of 1980s Bristol (UK), this retro flick follows a council estate kid out to settle the score with local thieves.Motorbikes, fast cars, punch-ups and 80's music. Set on the streets of 1980s Bristol (UK), this retro flick follows a council estate kid out to settle the score with local thieves.
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- TriviaThe Gatcombe Pub features, this was a well known drinking hole in Hartcliffe in the 1980s. As was The Town Talk which was on the outskirts of Hartcliffe. The Gatcombe no longer exists but The Towns Talk still does having been renamed The Yanliegh Inn.
- GoofsWhen the two blokes rock up to drop someone off in the gold coloured Mk 3 escort, the registration mark is wrong as Mk 3 escorts started with W registration whereas that one was R registered which is before the end of the Mk 2 escorts.
- SoundtracksToo Shy
written by Steve Askew, Nick Beggs, Stuart Neale, Jez Strode & Christopher Hamill
performed by Kajagoogoo
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The Fence
"Steven" (David Perkins) tries to help his mum get by, by working for a local butcher and then flogging a few illicitly caught trout to a local restaurant now and again. The dad (Neil Berrett) is pretty much a waste of space and his brother "Andrew" (Eugene Simon) is only just out on parole - adding to the headaches of their mother "Sharon" (a few, brief, appearances from Sally Phillips). "Steven" is quite a decent cove as it happens, and has saved up for his dream motorbike - well, it's more of a glorified moped, really. Anyway, he buys it, takes it for a hurl, leaves it outside his house and it's pinched. The police don't care, so he and his brother decide to track it down - easily done as it happens - and that puts in train a series of rather predictable, sometimes comically violent, daft escapades as the brothers tackle the local bullies, the local kingpin and make it clear that their family is not one to be messed with. It helps that it is set in Bristol - a more genteel environment for the cast on screen here. This would not have worked in a gritty, more working class city, but here you can overlook the "posh-boy" elements of the casting and just enjoy what is a quite well written and decently directed low-budget feature. The ending is a wee bit farcical, but there's familial chemistry to be seen here and the acting, though not likely to garner a BAFTA, makes for an engaging look at a family looking out for each other. No, you won't remember it afterwards - but it is worth a watch and you're bound to recall some of the music if you were around in the eighties.
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- Nov 4, 2023
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- Gdzie jest mój motor?
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- Hartcliffe, Bristol, England, UK(main location)
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- Gross worldwide
- $31,944
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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