Made In Britain [DVD]

What can I say about this film that has not already been said. Nothing really. Feels a little bit redundant, a review after all these years but I watched this film again with my 17 year old son whose doing film-studies at college. He'd just seen 'This is England' so I bought this and told him 'this WAS England. Watch it and learn something'.The film has a great cast, is well written and acted, is realisic, gritty, shocking and raw. The central charater of Trevor is both a terrific and terrifying creation because I am afraid we can all recognise him as someone we have either met or seen from a distance (whilst walking quicky in the other direction). Someone you don't make eye contact with. A problem of society. A scurge to be locked up or rehabilitated?It is a simply stunning performance by Tim Roth at the tender age of 21 (it's hard to belive he was already a dad by this point) and the way the film is made, it feels more like a documentary. I'm not sure you can actually enjoy a film like this (it's a bit like watching a car-crash - you're not sure whether you want to see it but you can't look away either). However, you can appreciate the skill with which it was put together. It's great TV.The story goes that Tim Roth got this role by accident after wandering into the theatre where auditions were taking place to borrow a bicycle pump. I'm so glad he got that flat tyre as I couldn't imagine anyone else playing this role.

I am not British but feel somehow connected to the social problem subject of this movie. There is not more to add to Sylvie's review above - it is a movie to be watched, excellently played, which will keep you chained to the screen from beginning (and what an amazing yet simple beginning) to the end (without an end in fact) awaiting for something terrible to happen - which I think it will in Trevor's life.

I found this to be an interesting film.It stars Tim Roth as Trevor, a teenage skinhead, who is sent to an assessment centre after putting a brick through a store owner's window.It is a very realistic look at how some people choose to approach life and what they get for it.A powerful performance by Tim Roth.

well acted in the grim, gritty, Ken Loach / Play for Today style of British docu-drama socialist-realism. Doesn't really explore or explain the anti-social & destructive motivation of the lead character whose behaviour seems to me more a case of psycopathy than social deprivation. By the end I realised this wasn't actually the play I was trying to find, which further research has confirmed was Oi for England by Trevor Griffiths, a very similar state of the nation piece of the time

Made in Britain is based on a angry skinhead called Trevor who goes too court for smashing a Asian mans window and then is detained and then cuases hacov by smashing a window and stealing a car and taking drugs and causing general problems!!great british film especially for the time it was made very relevant for the era!!excellent drama!!

A wonderful 80's film and Tim Roth is excellent in his debut. Gritty and portrays the early 80's well. Really recommend.

I guess you know what you are looking at if you have come this far.. You will have read the outline, and know it is about a violent and racist teenager.Where you take it from there is up to you..A chilling indictment of the British police and justice system.. and society- that can not, will not do something to stop this..Or is it about a thoroughly nasty, brutal, racist thug who will not let anything divert him from his path of self destruction?Poor him for being stuck in a social system? Poor social workers/police that have to deal with him and others like him day after day? Poor society that has to have him running wild in it?

Alan Clarke was a master of the docudrama but his ideological message backfires badly in this one. This film is supposed to transform us into critics of the Thatcher era, but it just makes you hate unemployed bums like Tim Roths character. Brilliantly filmed in a documentary style with some truly tragi-comic moments, this is a must for all those whose kids are out of control- show them the blackboard scene- if only it were still like that! Brilliant.