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| Languages: | English |
| Gross: |
USA - 964,201 USD (24 November 1996) |
| Plot: | A tender love story set during a hot summer on a South-East London housing estate. Jamie, a relatively unpopular lad who bunks off school to avoid football, lives next door to Ste, a more popular athletic lad but who is frequently beaten up by his father and older brother. Such an episode of violence brings Jamie and Ste together: Sandra (Jamie's mum) offers refugee to Ste, who has to 'top-and-tail' with Jamie. Hence, the story tells of their growing attraction for one another, from initial lingering glances to their irrefutable love, which so magnificently illustrated at the end of the film. In deals with the tribulations of coming to terms with their sexuality and of others finding out, in light of Sandra's unwavering loyalty and defence of Jamie and the fear of repercussion should Ste's family find out. The plot is set against sub-texts of Sandra's desire to manage her own pub, and thus escape the estate, and of her new relationship with her hippy boyfriend Tony; and of Leah, the brassy girl next door who has been expelled from school and spends her time listening to Mama Cass records and tripping on a variety of drugs. |
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Original Soundtracks
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"It's Getting Better" Music and Lyrics by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil Sung by 'Mama' Cass Elliot "One Way Ticket" Music and Lyrics by Bruce Hart and Stephen Lawrence Sung by 'Mama' Cass Elliot "California Earthquake" Music and Lyrics by John Hartford Sung by 'Mama' Cass Elliot "Welcome To The World" Music and Lyrics by Scott English and Martin Siegal Sung by 'Mama' Cass Elliot "Make Your Own Kind Of Music" Music and Lyrics by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil Sung by 'Mama' Cass Elliot "Move In A Little Closer Baby" Music and Lyrics by Arnold Capitanelli and Robert O'Connor Sung by 'Mama' Cass Elliot "Creeque alley" By The Mamas and the Papas "Dream a little dream of me" By The Mamas and the Papas "Beautiful Thing Medley" By John Altman including: "Peppermint foot lotion" "Beautiful Thing" "The Gloucester" "Don't cry" |
Goofs
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Crew: When Jamie and his Mum are fighting on the floor of their living room, the transmitter of the body mike is visible on his back underneath his tee-shirt. BOOM: When Leah is "making-up" to go out with Ste and Jamie at the end of the film. Continuity: When Jamie is in the tobacconist's looking at the magazines, there are three copies of "Gay Times" in the long shot, but only two in the closeup. Continuity: Jamie's position after Ste asks him to help Leah down from the balcony. Continuity: After "rescuing" Leah, Tony goes downstairs barefoot, but the sound of shoes can be heard. Continuity: When Jamie is about to steal a copy of "Gay Times", the magazines next to "Gay Times" are "Auto Trader" is wide-shots, but "Playboy" in close-ups. Continuity: When Leah is dressed up as Mama Cass, she has yellow tights over her head. Between shots the legs of the tights alternate from behind/in front of her shoulders. Continuity: Sandra's handbag, after she gets home. Fact errors: The rainbow early in the movie is inaccurately depicted: the red band should be outside the curve, and the blue/violet band on the inside. Continuity: At the party, Leah is holding an object in her hand. If you look closely, you notice that the larger white end is in her hand with the gray thin end on top. When the shot is zoomed out, you can tell it's now upside down with Leah holding the gray thin end in her hand. |
Quotes
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Sandra: It's for his bird. Tony: Do you have to use words like that? It really disempowers you. Sandra: Where are you going? Jamie: Out with my mates. Sandra: Jamie... you ain't got any mates. Sandra: It's not natural, is it? Jamie: What ain't? Sandra: A girl her age being into Mama Cass. Leah: She's got a really beautiful voice. Sandra: And what's wrong with Madonna? Leah: She's a slag. Sandra: Hypocrite. Jamie: Scared of being called "queer"? Ste: Are you? Jamie: Maybe... maybe not. Ste: And are ya? Jamie: Queer? Ste: Gay. Jamie: Very happy. I'm happy when I'm with you... Sandra: What happened? School burned down, did it? Jamie: Yeah. Sandra: What was it this time? IRA bomb? Jamie: Fundamentalist Muslim pyromaniacs. Sandra: Oh, funny, that. Looked all right when I walked past it. Ste: There ain't nowhere else. Sandra: There is, actually, Ste. There's an island in the Mediterranean called Lesbian, and all its inhabitants are dykes. So you've got your eye wiped there. Ste: You always wear glasses when you read? Jamie: Supposed to. Ste: But you don't at school. Jamie: It's hardly fetching, is it? Ste: Nah, looks all right. Jamie: Really? Ste: I'm tellin' ya. Jamie: Cheers. Miss Chauhan: Right, now, this is Mr. Bennett and he's gonna be taking the boys for football. Mr. Bennett foolishly wants to be a teacher. [McBride and the other boys are talking quietly, but including the word "fucking" several times, making Miss Chauhan's comments about Mr. Bennett barely audible. Jamie then looks across to McBride] Ryan McBride: What you fucking looking at? Miss Chauhan: Er, less fucking and more attention please. [She looks across to Gina, who is obviously pregnant] Miss Chauhan: Something you might have said to your boyfriend, that, Gina. Ste: Do you think I'm queer? Jamie Gangel: It don't matter what I think. Leah Russell: I wish I was the one that was going away. Nothing ever happens around here. I gets up in the morning, bake my face in half a ton of slap, tong my hair with yesterday's lacquer, that's it. It's the same every bleeding day. There's fuck-all to look forward to. Ste: [reading magazine] You cannot transmit the HIV virus by frottage. Ste: What's frottage? Jamie Gangel: It's yogurt. It's French. Sandra Gangel: Now you just remember I won a year's supply of toilet freshener for making up that poem. That took brains and artistry, that did. Leah: Come on Slasher, let's go. Sandra: Slasher? What do you slash, crepe paper? Leah: He's incontinent. Leah: It's your bird. She talks to me like I've got "cunt" written on me forehead. Tony: You shouldn't use words like "bird". Jamie: Where'd you meet my mum? Tony: Planet Earth! Jamie: Yeah, but where? Tony: A place is just somewhere where shit happens. Jamie: Yeah, but where? Tony: Gateways. Jamie: You know who Claude Monet is? Sandra: Jamie, don't make me out to be thick. Jamie: Who was he then? Sandra: He painted the Sixteenth Chapel. Leah: Don't suppose you've got any jobs in your new pub? Sandra: No. But if I ever do turn it into a brothel I'll get back to you, ok? Miss Chauhan: BALLS, Mr. Bennett! Jamie: [hearing phone ring] That'll be the phone. Sandra: Well it wouldn't be the bloody Hoover bag, would it? Sandra: You're pissed! From a bloody gay bar! Jamie: How do you know it's a gay bar? Sandra: Cos it's got a bloody great pink neon arse outside of it! Sandra: Jamie, who played the Baroness in the Sound of Music? Jamie: Eleanor Parker! |
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