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Made in Britain

  • TV Movie
  • 1983
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 16m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
8.1K
YOUR RATING
Made in Britain (1983)
Dark ComedyCrimeDrama

After being sent to an assessment center, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers, who want to conform him to the status quo.After being sent to an assessment center, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers, who want to conform him to the status quo.After being sent to an assessment center, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers, who want to conform him to the status quo.

  • Director
    • Alan Clarke
  • Writer
    • David Leland
  • Stars
    • Tim Roth
    • Terry Richards
    • Bill Stewart
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    8.1K
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    • Director
      • Alan Clarke
    • Writer
      • David Leland
    • Stars
      • Tim Roth
      • Terry Richards
      • Bill Stewart
    • 55User reviews
    • 24Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Tim Roth
    Tim Roth
    • Trevor
    Terry Richards
    • Errol Dupray
    Bill Stewart
    Bill Stewart
    • Peter Clive
    Eric Richard
    Eric Richard
    • Harry Parker
    Geoffrey Hutchings
    Geoffrey Hutchings
    • Superintendent
    Sean Chapman
    Sean Chapman
    • Barry Giller
    John Bleasdale
    • Policeman
    Noel Diacomo
    • Solicitor
    Maurice Quick
    • Magistrate
    Sharon Courtney
    • House Parent
    Steve Sweeney
    Steve Sweeney
    • Job Centre Youth
    • (as Stephen Sweeney)
    Kim Benson
    • Job Centre Girl
    Catherine Clarke
    • Job Centre Girl
    Jean Marlow
    • Job Centre Woman
    Jim Dunk
    • Chef
    Vass Anderson
    • Canteen Manager
    David Baldwin
    David Baldwin
    • Leroy
    Allister Bain
    • Hopkins
    • Director
      • Alan Clarke
    • Writer
      • David Leland
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    User reviews55

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    10saintpap

    Thoughtful, honest masterpiece.

    I've seen this film a number of times over the last few years. The first time I ever saw it, I was an idealistic young scamp who'd done very well at school. Needless to say, I spent the entire film hoping that this desperately intelligent character would pull out of the spiral he'd got himself into.

    A bit of personal history, which I don't normally supply, but in this case I believe it's pertinent. My grandfather hails from Pakistan, which is something that should make me despise this film, as Trevor, the main character, constantly harangues a Pakistani shopkeeper called Mr. Shanawaz. However, on repeated viewings I have consistently found this to be one of the best films ever made.

    Roth plays a disaffected, supremely intelligent young man called Trevor who knows far more about the world than his "betters" would wish him to. His "betters" are social workers, and those responsible for making sure that he will eventually integrate into the wider British society.

    Trevor is unrelenting and has no qualms about describing the society in which he lives. On my first viewing, I was horrified by his racist attitudes and the beliefs he subscribes to. However, the most important part of this film is Trevor's honesty. Honesty, however horrific it is, is Trevor's primary motivation. After watching it again and again, this is what comes through more than anything else. Trevor is uncompromising. He refuses to let society dictate his own opinions, even when that society kicks him and beats him. Trevor almost never misleads people, and practices his mantra almost to the letter. His integrity is never in doubt. Like him or hate him, you will respect the fact that he stands for his beliefs.

    Made In Britain is a film about standing up for what you believe in, no matter how extreme those beliefs are. Trevor's beliefs are so compelling that he even convinces a black teenager ( Errol ) to shout "You baboons, get back to the jungle!". It also provides an incisive social commentary on the Britain of 1982. It isn't the integrated melting pot that government would have you believe it is. Following recent racial tension in Oldham and other towns in the North of England, the film's message seems particularly poignant now.

    There are very few bad performances in this movie, the notable exception being the female teenagers in the JobCentre. Overall, it is a superb film that should be approached with an open mind - providing a message that all is not well in multi-racial Britain.
    7karl_consiglio

    Up against the world

    Finally got to watch this movie. So true its worth watching even just to watch those expressions. We got a young and promising Tim Roth here playing Trevor the juvenile delinquent skin head. I watched it a second time before deciding to write this review. The first time I felt for the guy, I always felt somewhat that way for the underdog star that rebels against the straight ways of the society we live in. However watching it a second time i realized how annoying he is and how true it is that nobody was giving him any trouble whatsoever and that indeed he was always the one to bring it on himself. Everybody around him does nothing but try to help, OK he says he does not need any help, wants to be left in peace to do whatever he wants, but does that include having him allow others to live in peace? I love it towards the end he really loses it.
    8Hey_Sweden

    An impressive debut performance.

    The extremely talented Tim Roth made his acting debut with this powerful little drama. Roth plays Trevor, a teen aged skinhead with no regard for the rules of society. As the story opens, he's being sent to a detention centre while authorities try to decide what to do about him. He doesn't have any real interest in changing his ways, and would prefer to spend his time stealing things, spouting racial hatred, and being a public nuisance in general.

    One can tell that 'Made in Britain' was originally made for television. It doesn't attempt to be overtly cinematic, but then it doesn't need to. David Leland wrote the intelligent script, making this an "angry young man" story with a memorable central character. One watches this unfold, doubtful that Trevor will be redeemable at some point, and only vaguely hopeful. When officials try to show him the error of his ways, he shows no interest. His compulsive need to defy authority overrides everything, and he simply refuses to stay out of trouble.

    Directed by Alan Clarke ("Scum"), and scored by anarchist musicians The Exploited, this gets a lot of juice from the magnetic performance by Roth. I'm sure people who watched 'Made in Britain' when it was new could sense a brilliant career in the making. Roth is also very nicely supported by Terry Richards, as the impressionable Errol, Bill Stewart, as Peter, Geoffrey Hutchings, as the superintendent, and Sean Chapman ("Hellraiser" 1 and 2) as Barry.

    Highly recommended viewing.

    Eight out of 10.
    givnaw

    Unforgettable

    Saw it years ago by accident on PBS. Thought it was a documentary. They've only shown it once, to my knowledge (probably because so many complained about the foul language and nasty attitude of Trevor. Very unappetizing to American mid-western WASP sensibilities.). An absolutely stupifyingly mind-blowing performance by Tim Roth. Once you see, you won't forget.
    Lexo-2

    The Eighties as I remember them

    From the minute Made in Britain kicks off, with a 17-year-old Tim Roth with skinhead and a swastika tattoo between his eyebrows, slouching into the juvenile court to the strains of The Exploited, the energy never flags. Clarke's patented loping Steadicam follows Trevor (Roth) as he goes from assessment centre to job centre to sniffing glue with a fellow ne'er-do-well to stealing a car and throwing bricks through a Pakistani's front window, seemingly bent on pushing the system to its limits. Trevor doesn't give a f***, and in an amazing second act, set entirely in a basement room, he tells the authorities what he thinks of them: "I'm a star, mate. I'm in exactly the right place at the right time."

    Trevor is hateful - he's racist, bullying, utterly selfish and dangerous, but he's also so bright and eloquent that the main feeling on watching the film is wonder at a society that could possible have produced people like this. David Leland, who wrote the film, speculated years later that Trevor would probably have gone on to work in the Stock Exchange in the late Eighties - he might well have been one of the well-heeled cronies of Gary Oldman's Bez in Clarke's 1988 football hooliganism film, The Firm. In the depressed and fearful Britain of 1982, Trevor's manic energy and contempt has no outlet - once Thatcherite policies had helped to boost the British economy, his disbelief in "society" would have been totally at home on the stock market. As Thatcher famously remarked, "There is no such thing as society", and Made in Britain shows how she caused such a state of affairs to come about.

    It's also very funny, in a sick kind of way.

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    • Trivia
      Tim Roth researched his role by attending National Front meetings, much to his distaste.
    • Quotes

      Harry Parker: You can go to the toilet now.

      Trevor the Skinhead: Nah, I'll piss on the wall.

    • Connections
      Featured in Tim Roth: Made in Britain (2000)
    • Soundtracks
      UK 82
      Written by Big John Duncan and Wattie Buchan

      Performed by The Exploited

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 10, 1983 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • -The original movie
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Tales Out of School: Made in Britain
    • Production company
      • Central Independent Television
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 16m(76 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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