Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2004 / Charlie / United Kingdom 2003
Tough, violent drama based on the true story of a ´60s London hoodlum, starring former boyband Bros star Luke Goss.
The catalogue of nasty British films about nasty British gangsters gains a powerful, very unsettling entry with Charlie, an offbeat biopic about ´60s London hoodlum Charlie Richardson and his notorious "terror gang." Pic is led by a magnetic performance from former boyband Bros star Luke Goss, and has an outlook that teeters perilously between damning and excusing Richardson´s past. This gritty, violent second feature by writer-director Malcolm Needs is set during the same period as the 1990 movie, The Krays, when working-class gangs evolved during the economic stringency of post-WWII Britain. Pic follows Charlie (Goss) and his brother Eddy (Langley Kirkwood) as they carve out a south London empire based on extortion and dodgy business deals.
Derek Elley
94 min / Color, 35 mm
International premiere
Director Malcolm Needs
/ Screenplay Malcolm Needs
/ Dir. of Photography Zoran Veljkovic
/ Music Stephen W. Parsons
/ Editor Jeremy Gibbs, Toby Yates
/ Producer Tim Ireland, Malcolm Needs
/ Production Mida Films
/ Cast Luke Goss, Steven Berkoff, Langley Kirkwood
/ Contact Equator Films, British Council
Equator Films
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Phone: +44 207 025 7400
Fax: +44 207 025 7401
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British Council
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 207 389 3067
Fax: +44 207 389 3175
E-mail: [email protected]
Paul Howson
Film Institution Rep.
Malcolm Needs
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