TwentyFourSeven

Apr 3, 1998

1h 36m

★ 6.2

Everybody wants to be somebody.

Overview

In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, 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. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Scala Films

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Cast

Alan Darcy

Bob Hoskins

Tim

Danny Nussbaum

Geoff

Bruce Jones

Pat

Annette Badland

Ronnie Marsh

Frank Harper

Daz (as Darren Campbell)

Darren O. Campbell

Stuart

Karl Collins

Gadget

Justin Brady

Meggy

Jimmy Hynd

Benny

Johann Myers

Carl 'Tonka' Marsh

James Corden

Wesley 'Fagash' Fraser

Mat Hand

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