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Bloody Kids is a British television film written by Stephen Poliakoff and directed by Stephen Frears, made by Black Lion Films for ATV, and first shown on ITV on 22 March 1980.
Feb 12, 2019 · Bloody Kids is a British television film written by Stephen Poliakoff and directed by Stephen Frears, made by Black Lion Films for ATV, and first shown on IT...
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Bloody Kids is an intriguing collaboration between Poliakoff and Stephen Frears. It is a hallucinatory story set over a few days where we see the late 1970s youth culture in the last moments of punk, viewed through the steely gaze of two eleven-year-old boys.
Uniting two leading lights of British film and television over the past three decades, director Stephen Frears and writer Stephen Poliakoff, Bloody Kids (ITV, tx. 23/3/1980) is a powerful and disturbing drama exploring youth alienation in an Essex seaside town in the late 1970s.
Originally made for television, Bloody Kids (aka One Joke Too Many) emerged from an era of gritty, state-of-the-nation British film and TV dramas such as Scum, Meantime and its near-namesake, London Weekend Television's 'Kids', also from 1979.
Jul 1, 2019 · Set in a slightly slipped-reality version of faded seaside Southend, it follows two 12-year-old pranksters (Peter Clark and Richard Thomas) who stage a sham knife fight – just for something to do, or so it seems at first – which ends up with one of them in hospital.
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