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Aug 25, 2017 · Set in Thatcher’s Britain of the 70’s and 80’s, a time when working class Manchester was beset by unemployment and riots, the film tells the story of 17 year-old Steven (Jack Lowden), a painfully shy, intellectually precocious loner who lives for, and writes about, the burgeoning local music scene—a surprisingly vibrant subculture in an otherwise drab industrial city. Too intimidated ...
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- Mark Gill
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Aug 3, 2017 · England Is Mine takes a loving look at his pre- Smiths fame, back when he was a jobless teenager obsessed with writing scathing reviews of local bands and sending them into the NME letters page ...
Sep 28, 2020 · Man of the moment Jack Lowden, fresh from Tommy’s Honour and Dunkirk, plays Steven Morrissey, an introverted teenager in 1970’s Manchester.He is frustrated with his dull job at the tax office and uninspired existence – his only escape is at the city’s underground gig scene where he meets Linder Sterling (Jessica Brown Findlay), a free spirited artist who inspires him to chase his ...
- George Savvides
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2018. David Stratton The Australian. TOP CRITIC. England is Mine, handsomely filmed for the wide screen, is an auspicious debut for Gill. Even those ...
Jul 31, 2017 · ‘England is Mine’ is full of the stuff that The Smiths later immortalised – meeting at the cemetery gates, clubs so rubbish you want to hang the DJ, the humdrum of mum and dad arguing at the ...
- Mark Gill
- Cath Clarke
- August 3, 2017
England Is Mine is a 2017 British biographical drama film, based on the early years of singer Morrissey, before he formed the Smiths in 1982 with Johnny Marr. Originally titled Steven (Morrissey's first name), the title of the film comes from a lyric in the Smiths' song " Still Ill ": "England is mine, and it owes me a living."
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Aug 23, 2017 · August 23, 2017 5:04 pm. "England Is Mine". A handsome little biopic that’s sopping wet with the same clichés that its whiny hero so adamantly disavows, Mark Gill’s “England Is Mine ...
