Twenty Four Seven is a 1997 British film written and directed by Shane Meadows. This is Shane's first feature film. Shane also directed the 2006 film "This Is England". It was co-written by Paul Freiser. Twenty Four Seven has almost the same similarities as the 2000 American football film "Remember The Titians".
Plot
On October 29 1993 In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins), 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. Soon he opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs start to grow together into friends. Darcy manages to organize a public fight for them to prove what they have learned. A training camp with hiking tours into the mountains of Wales forge the group into a tight-knit club society. With the day of the fight drawing closer, the young boxers get more and more excited. Five years later in 1998 Tim finds Darcy in a abandoned and they have a funeral.
Cast
- Bob Hoskins as Alan Darcy
- Danny Nussbaum as Tim
- Justin Brady as Gadget
- James Hooton as Wolfman Knighty
- Darren O. Campbell as Daz
- Karl Collins as Stuart
- Johann Myers as Benny
- Jimmy Hynd as Meggy
- Mat Hand as Wesley Fagash
- James Corden as Tonka
- Frank Harper as Ronnie Marsh
- Bruce Jones as Tim's Dad