Green Street hooligans [dvd] / an Odd Lot Entertainment production ; produced with the Take Partnerships ; a Lexi Alexander film ; story by Lexi Alexander, Dougie Brimson ; produced by Gigi Pritzker, Deborah Del Prete, Donald Zuckerman ; screenplay by Dougie Brimson, Joshua Shelov, Lexi Alexander ; directed by Lexi Alexander.
Originally produced as a British motion picture in 2004. Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani, Marc Warren, Leo Gregory, Geoff Bell, Kieran Bew, Henry Goodman, Christopher Hehir, Terence Jay, Ross McCall, Francis Pope, Rafe Spall. Special features: The Making of Hooligans (6 min.) [featurette]; One Blood (4 min.) [music video].
Contents:
Underground clash -- Harvard to London -- Two younger brothers -- You might learn something -- blowing bubbles -- Working the crowd -- Stand your ground -- Firm history -- Messing things up -- How Americans bruise -- Bovver causes a bother -- Train ride to a trap -- Sneak attack -- Guest appearance -- Draw -- Undercover journer? -- Steve's old life -- Put right in it -- Die and we're even -- Shannon's decision -- Outsiders -- Gathering forces -- War on the wharf -- From rage to tragedy -- Ticket back.
Summary:
Matt, banished from Harvard when his roommate sets him up as a drug-bust patsy, relocates to England, reconnecting with his sister Shannon. The naive Yank quickly finds himself passed off to Shannon's brother-in-law. Pete is a member of a 'firm'-thugs who with their ferociously bloodthirsty, off-the-pitch street battles are emblematic of the testosterone fueled psychosis of British football hooliganism-"supporting the home team," West Ham United. At first the butt of jokes, Matt is inexorably sucked in by these mad, bad, dangerous-to-know Hammers fans and into the black hole of thuggery, first hoisting incalculable pints, singing indecipherable anthems, preparing, again and again, to war on the terraces of the home turf for nothing much at all.
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