RECOMENDDED

GENRE: Drama Romance

ORIGINAL TITLE Shank
YEAR 2009
RUNNING TIME 94 min.
COUNTRY U.K.
DIRECTOR Simon Pearce
SCREENWRITER Darren Flaxstone, Christian Martin
COMPOSER Barnaby Taylor
CINEMATOGRAPHER Simon Pearce
CAST Wayne Virgo, Marc Laurent, Alice Payne, Tom Bott, Garry Summers, Bernie Hodges, Christian Martin
STUDIO/PRODUCER FAQs / Parasol Pictures Releasing
GENRE Drama. Romance | Gay & Lesbian. Teen
SYNOPSIS/PLOT Teenage gang member Cal, hides his sexuality from the his fellow happy slapping gang members despite their often futile and violent dislike of anyone that isn't the same as them be they unsuspecting shoppers, foreign students, gays etc. Hooking up with a random stranger (Scott), Cal is unaware that this chance meeting will eventually provide him with choices and routes of escape from the tedium of his unambitious and depraved life. When his world collides with Olivier, a student he rescues from a pointless beating, he encounters a lifestyle that presents as many new experiences as it does obstacles.