A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)

Directed by

Shane Meadows

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United Kingdom, Canada

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

R

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 64 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two teenage boys in a Nottinghamshire town befriend an older man who becomes a disruptive presence. The film follows their friendship and the unsettling dynamics that arise.

tenderuncomfortableoddly comicrawsmall-townbittersweetnaturalisticlow-key

What happens

A Room for Romeo Brass is a 1999 British teen comedy-drama film directed by Shane Meadows, who also co-wrote the film with Paul Fraser. The film was mainly shot in Calverton, Nottinghamshire between 5 September and 17 October 1998. The location of the seaside scene was Chapel St. Leonards in Lincolnshire. The film stars Andrew Shim as Romeo Brass, Ben Marshall as Gavin Woolley and Paddy Considine as Morell. It marked the screen debut of Vicky McClure and Considine, who would go on to star in Meadows' subsequent films, Dead Man's Shoes and Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee, chronologically. It was nominated in three categories at the 1999 British Independent Film Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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