Focus on British Film (2000-2005) 2006 / Out of Control / United Kingdom 2002
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.
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.
102 min / Color, BETA SP
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
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.
British Council
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BBC Films
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Geraldine Higgins
Dominic Savage
Film Director
Leo Gregory
Actor
Ruth Caleb
Producer
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