Synopsis
After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of British football hooliganism. Matt learns to stand his ground through a friendship that develops against the backdrop of this secret and often violent world. 'Green Street Hooligans' is a story of loyalty, trust and the sometimes brutal consequences of living close to the edge.
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Cast
- Elijah WoodMatt Buckner
- Charlie HunnamPete Dunham
- Claire ForlaniShannon Dunham
- Ross McCallDave Bjorno
- Leo GregoryBovver
- Marc WarrenSteve Dunham
- Rafe SpallSwill
- Kieran BewIke
- Geoff BellTommy Hatcher
- Henry GoodmanCarl Buckner
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Then I realized the movie's point is that someone like this nerdy Harvard boy might be transformed in a fairly short time into a bloodthirsty gang fighter. The message is that violence is hard-wired into men, if only the connection is made. - 80
Film Threat
A great film because of it's realism and the ability to show viewers a world that exists even today, but not everyone knows about. - 70
Variety
Unvarnished verisimilitude, visceral impact and vividly evoked emotional and physical extremes distinguish Hooligans, the impressive debut feature by German-born helmer Lexi Alexander. - 70
L.A. Weekly
Playing something of a cipher who reinvents himself as the occasion demands, Wood is unusually well cast, but it's Hunnam, with a psychotic twinkle in his eye, who turns the movie on whenever he's onscreen. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Viewers hoping to understand the senseless phenomenon of football hooliganism would do better to rent Alan Clarke's nearly 20-year-old "The Firm." - 50
The A.V. Club
It loses its superficial charm during a labored third act that gets bogged down in tired, groan-inducing subplots. - 50
Village Voice
Hunnam, whose cockney ranges from dodgy to downright Caine-ian, mutes Gary Oldman's bestial mouth-froth (in Clarke's 1988 The Firm), becoming the prettiest, most articulate, bloodthirsty thug ever to put lip to lager. - 50
The New York Times
Green Street Hooligans, an accidental advertisement for Alcoholics Anonymous and the somnolent pleasures of cricket that, in the end, is mostly about the pleasures, both visceral and visual, of violence.
