TwentyFourSeven

TwentyFourSeven

Everybody wants to be somebody.

R 1998 · 96 min · ★ 6.2 · Drama

In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.

Directed by Shane Meadows · Written by Paul Fraser

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