A strong cast including an intense turn from Fraser Kelly as the 11-year-old title character can’t stop the gritty ambition of the story sliding into schmaltz
‘You seem like a nice bloke, so I’m gonna give you some advice. Don’t trust me mum – she’ll destroy your life.” That’s the heads-up from young Leeds tearaway Urban (Fraser Kelly) to Chop (Richard Armitage), who has shacked up with the former’s hard-partying mother Greta (Anna Friel). Adapted from Bernard Hare’s 2005 memoir Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew, getting life guidance from 11-year-olds is par for the course in a topsy-turvy demi-monde of absentee parents, latchkey kids and rife substance abuse. Originally shot in 2015 and seemingly re-edited in between, the film succumbs to a fatal lack of perspective itself – never fully sure of whose story this is and what purchase to offer on the stunted lives on show.
‘You seem like a nice bloke, so I’m gonna give you some advice. Don’t trust me mum – she’ll destroy your life.” That’s the heads-up from young Leeds tearaway Urban (Fraser Kelly) to Chop (Richard Armitage), who has shacked up with the former’s hard-partying mother Greta (Anna Friel). Adapted from Bernard Hare’s 2005 memoir Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew, getting life guidance from 11-year-olds is par for the course in a topsy-turvy demi-monde of absentee parents, latchkey kids and rife substance abuse. Originally shot in 2015 and seemingly re-edited in between, the film succumbs to a fatal lack of perspective itself – never fully sure of whose story this is and what purchase to offer on the stunted lives on show.
- 10/31/2023
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
12 year old Fraser Kelly (represented by Red Hot Entertainment) leads the cast of Urban and the Shed Crew, an adaptation of the book by Bernard Hare, described as a tale of heroin and cement, set in Britain’s underclass in the 90’s, which is currently filming in Leeds.
Ex-social worker Bernard Hare is introduced to the Shed Crew – an anarchic gang of kids between the ages of ten and fourteen; joy-riding, thieving runaways, no strangers to drugs or sex
Fraser stars alongside Richard Armitage as Chop, Anna Friel as Greta, Neil Morrissey, Kathryn Drysdale, and Charlie Heaton plays Urban's brother Frank.
Twelve-year old Urban Grimshaw is Britains’ most runaway child, he’s even been on TV’s Crimewatch. His mother is a junkie and his father might as well be dead. He can’t read or write, and he doesn’t go to school. His average day is spent sitting...
Ex-social worker Bernard Hare is introduced to the Shed Crew – an anarchic gang of kids between the ages of ten and fourteen; joy-riding, thieving runaways, no strangers to drugs or sex
Fraser stars alongside Richard Armitage as Chop, Anna Friel as Greta, Neil Morrissey, Kathryn Drysdale, and Charlie Heaton plays Urban's brother Frank.
Twelve-year old Urban Grimshaw is Britains’ most runaway child, he’s even been on TV’s Crimewatch. His mother is a junkie and his father might as well be dead. He can’t read or write, and he doesn’t go to school. His average day is spent sitting...
- 4/1/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
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