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Somers Town (2008)

Somers Town poster
Directed by
Shane Meadows
Genre
drama film, comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 11m
Rated
12
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 101 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A lonely teenager from Nottingham moves to London and befriends a Polish immigrant boy. They both develop a crush on a waitress while living in the Somers Town area.

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What happens

Somers Town is a 2008 British independent comedy-drama film directed by Shane Meadows, written by Paul Fraser and produced by Barnaby Spurrier. The film stars Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Kate Dickie, Perry Benson, and Elisa Lasowski. It was entirely funded by the train operating company Eurostar. The film is a study of social environment in the Somers Town area of London, photographed mostly in black and white, except one scene which is in colour. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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