I.D. (1995)

Directed by

Phil Davis

Genre

drama film, crime film, association football film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

18

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 105 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1988, a group of undercover police officers try to infiltrate a violent football hooligan gang in East London. One officer struggles as his double life blurs his true identity.

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What happens

I.D. is a 1995 film made by BBC Films about football hooliganism, directed by Philip Davis, screenplay written by Vincent O'Connell based on the original story by James Bannon, and starring Reece Dinsdale, Sean Pertwee and Warren Clarke. It is set in 1988 in the Shadwell area of East London, England, and is a story about a group of Metropolitan Police officers who are sent undercover to infiltrate a gang of dangerous football hooligans. Although set in London, a lot of the film was filmed in South Yorkshire, in particular Rotherham and Sheffield. Millmoor stadium in Rotherham served as Shadwell Town's fictional home "The Kennel". The tagline is "When you go undercover, remember one thing... Who you are." The true events that inspired the movie are chronicled in the 2013 book Running with the Firm written by former undercover detective James Bannon. The film has a cult following. In 2016, twenty one years after the original the film was released, it received a sequel named ID2: Shadwell Army. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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