This Is England
2006
· Movie
· 101 min
A
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #381
- IMDb #721
- Rotten Tomatoes #386
- Metacritic #260
- Letterboxd #419
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #664
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #526
- Metacritic Critics #340
- Metacritic Audience #350
- Criticker #344
- Douban #760
- Kinopoisk #1188
- AlloCiné #897
Every rating
67–93
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 67, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 93.
See the most agreed on films →In 1983, a lonely twelve-year-old boy grieving his father's death in the Falklands War finds a sense of belonging with a group of skinheads. The group is initially friendly, but their dynamic shifts when an older, racist and aggressive ex-convict is released from prison and takes over the gang, leading the young boy down a dangerous and violent path.
Details
- Director
- Shane Meadows
- Writer
- Shane Meadows
- Released
- 27 April 2007
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $2.4M
- Box office
- $8.2M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (27) →
Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 major award won · 1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| 61st British Academy Film Awards 2007 | Best British Film | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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1 awards — This Is England
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61st British Academy Film Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best British Film | Winner |