NEDS

Year: 2010
UK: Entertainment One UK
Cast: Conor McCarron, Martin Bell, Linda Cuthbert, Richard Mack, David McKay, Marcus Nash, Marianna Palka, Steven Robertson, Douglas Russell
Director: Peter Mullan
Country: UK / France / Italy
UK: 124 mins
UK Certificate: 18 contains very strong language
UK Release Date: 21 January 2011 (Limited Release)

Synopsis

From the award-winning writer-director Peter Mullan (THE MAGDALENE SISTERS) comes a story set against the backdrop of 1970s Glasgow, about a young man's journey from prize-winning schoolboy to knife-carrying youth.

Struggling against the low expectations of those around him, John McGill (Conor McCarron) changes from victim to avenger, altar boy to glue sniffer, scholar to one of the NEDS (Non Educated Delinquents). When he attempts to change back again, his new reality and recent past make conformity near impossible and violent self determination near inevitable.