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A Glaswegian starts works on a London Building site where all the workers are each into their own scam. Building rules and regulations don't appear to be in force here...Product Identifiers
EAN6867449003092
eBay Product ID (ePID)64008882
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Film/TV TitleRiff Raff
ActorEmer Mccourt, Ricky Tomlinson, Robert Carlyle
DirectorKen Loach
FormatDVD
Release Year2008
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesInteractive Menu
Aspect Ratio4:3 Full Frame
Run Time95 Mins
GenreGeneral, Comedy
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
ReviewsTotal Film - "...Realistic, intelligent and well performed...It's also very funny..." -- 4 out of 5 stars, Rolling Stone - ...Loach's vision, cutting and compassionate, makes RIFF-RAFF black comedy of a high order...
Additional InformationDirector Ken Loach's concern for the plight of the working man takes a comic turn in this gritty film starring Robert Carlyle (TRAINSPOTTING) as Stevie, a young Scotsman who finds a construction job in the north of London turning an old hospital into luxury condos. Like most of the largely non-English crew, he's forced to live in a squat, an abandoned building whose doors can be opened only with a crowbar. Despite their differences, the laborers are bound by the difficulty of their work and their shared hatred of the bosses and contractors who constantly threaten to fire them and endanger their lives by cutting corners on safety. Loach's camera follows the workers unobtrusively as they relax in the squats and pubs, revealing, in their gallows humour, the fatalism of men who feel they've been forgotten by the society they inhabit. Stevie tries moving in for a time with Susan (Emer McCourt), a slightly dim, aspiring singer, but as is often the case for these men, things don't quite work out they way he hopes. Although Loach worked from a script, he used only actors who had construction experience and encouraged them to improvise their dialogue, making RIFF RAFF an utterly absorbing experience. The music for the film, like RAINING STONES, is scored by Stewart Copeland of the Police.
Movie/TV TitleRiff Raff
ComposerStewart Copeland
Sound sourceDolby Digital