Twenty Four Seven (film)

Twenty Four Seven
UK DVD cover
Directed by	Shane Meadows
Produced by	Imogen West
Written by	Paul Fraser Shane Meadows
Starring	Bob Hoskins Danny Nussbaum
Music by	Boo Hewerdine Neil MacColl
Cinematography	Ashley Rowe
Edited by	William Diver
Production company	BBC Films
Distributed by	Pathé (UK) Alliance Atlantis Communications (Canada)
Release dates	Canada: 10 September 1997 United Kingdom: 3 April 1998 United States: 1 May 1998 Australia: 25 June 1998
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	$72,544^[1]

Twenty Four Seven is a 1997 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.

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 1998 Venice Film Festival.

References

↑ "24 7: Twenty Four Seven (1998)". The Numbers.

External links

24 7: Twenty Four Seven at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed 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)

Short films	Where's the Money, Ronnie? (1995) Three Tears for Jimmy Prophet (1997) Northern Soul (2004) The Stairwell (2005)

Television	This Is England '86 (2010) This Is England '88 (2011) This Is England '90 (2015)

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