Archive of films Out of Control / Out of Control

United Kingdom
2002, 102 min

Section: Focus on British Film (2000-2005)
Year: 2006

The story of a teenager, played by Danny Young, who succumbs to peer pressure, makes a “mistake” and subsequently has to do time in a correctional facility. Here, his nightmare turns to reality in the form of a disturbed and brutal bully, convincingly portrayed by Leo Gregory.

Synopsis

Winner of Best British Feature at the 2002 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Out Of Control confirmed Dominic Savage’s status as Britain’s premier chronicler of the young and the dispossessed. Having spent several months of research in the country’s toughest housing estates and young offenders institutes, he used improvisations to construct his tale of a teenage boy (Danny Young) who succumbs to peer pressure and is sentenced to a spell in a corrective facility when he’s caught in a stolen car. Sweet and sensitive, he is easy prey for the institute’s most unhinged bully (Leo Gregory), whose own battered self-esteem can only be nourished through destroying others. David Morrissey, recently seen in Basic Instinct 2, plays a concerned prison warder. Gregory’s powerful performance won him many admirers, and he has gone on to star as Brian Jones in Stoned, Stephen Woolley’s film about the deceased Rolling Stone, and in football hooligan drama Green Street Hooligans.

About the director

Dominic Savage (b. 1962, Kent) was a child actor whose roles include Young Bullingdon in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. He studied at Britain’s National Film and Television School, and in 2000 wrote and directed the TV film Nice Girl – the story of a young mother and her soldier husband – for the BBC, winning a TV BAFTA for New Director Fiction. His next drama, When I Was 12 (2001), about a pre-teen runaway, also won a TV BAFTA for Best Single Film. He won yet more acclaim for Out Of Control, including Britain’s Royal Television Society Award for Best Single Film. He followed this with his debut feature film, Love + Hate (2005), an interracial teen love story set in a northern English town, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2005 and was also presented in Karlovy Vary.

Contacts

British Council
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 207 389 3067
Fax: +44 207 389 3175
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.britishcouncil.org/film

BBC Films
, W12 7RJ, London
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 208 576 1296
Fax: +44 208 225 8212
www: www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms

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About the film

Color, BETA SP

Section:	Focus on British Film (2000-2005)

Director:	Dominic Savage
Screenplay:	Dominic Savage
Dir. of Photography:	Barry Ackroyd
Editor:	David Hill
Producer:	Ruth Caleb
Production:	BBC Films
Cast:	Leo Gregory, David Morrissey, Tamzin Outhwaite, Jamie Foreman, Danny Young
Contact:	British Council, BBC Films

Guests

Geraldine Higgins

Dominic Savage

Film Director

Leo Gregory

Actor

Ruth Caleb

Producer