KIDULTHOOD

Year: 2006
UK: Revolver Entertainment
Cast: Ami Ameen, Red Madrell, Noel Clarke, Jamie Winstone, Adam Deacon, Femi Oyeniran, Tom Burroughs, Sam Callis, Stephen Da Costa, Ortis Deley, Madeleine Fairley, Alexander Hanson, Nicholas Hoult, Sushil Hunjan, Cornell John, Kate Magowan, Rebecca Martin, Pierre Mascolo, Hannah Miles, Ray Panthaki, Bhasker Patel, David Schaal, Rafe Spall, Christopher Villiers, Natalie Wright
Director: Menhaj Huda
Country: UK
UK: 91 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong violence, language, sex references and drug use
UK Release Date: 3 March 2006


Synopsis

It's just another day at school for West London teenagers Trife (Aml Ameen) Jay (Adam Deacon) and Moony (Femi Oyeniran): beatings in the classroom, sex on the playing field and drugs in the schoolyard. But things are about to flip sharply for this tight trio and their crowd. With school cancelled following the tragic suicide of bullied pupil Katie, the teenagers are all forced to face their own responsibilities and blame for the situations they have got themselves into.

15-year-old Trife is facing a crossroads in his life. His uncle is tempting him with fast money, easy women and the gangster lifestyle; while his girlfriend Alisa (Red Madrell) offers an escape to what she promises will be a better life. Trife must make a choice. But with word spreading that Alisa has slept with someone else, will he make the right one? Along with Jay and Moony, he also has the school bully Sam (Noel Clarke) to contend with. Sam is out for revenge after Jay steals his girlfriend Claire (Madeline Fairley) who he has been physically abusing and the trio (Trife, Jay and Moony) humiliate and beat him in his own house.

Trife's girlfriend Alisa is also having a bad day. She's just learnt that she's pregnant. But her best friend Becky (Jaime Winstone) is only interested in dragging her out on a drug and shopping binge. With the brother of dead Katie set on revenge and everyone heading to the same party, the scene is set for a decisive collision.

It's step up or back down time...

A harrowing, shocking story that finds humour in its narrative and set to a blistering UK hip-hop and grime soundtrack, KIDULTHOOD is a new kind of British film.

Based on real kids. Real stories. This is real life.