Synopsis
It's 3:07am and two girls burst into a run down London toilet. Joanne is crying her eyes out and her clothing is ripped. Kelly's face is bruised and starting to swell. Duncan Allen lies in his bathroom bleeding to death. Duncan's son finds his father and wants answers. Derek – Kelly's pimp – needs to find Kelly or it will be him who pays.
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Cast
- Georgia GroomeJoanne
- Johnny HarrisDerek
- Sam SpruellStuart Allen
- Lorraine StanleyKelly
- Alexander MortonDuncan Allen
- Nathan ConstanceChum
- Jamie KennaTony
- Chloe BaleKaren
- David KeelingCharlie
- Claudie BlakleyTracey (as Claudie Blakely)
Recommendations
- 75
New York Daily News
Very good but very grim, Paul Andrew Williams' punishing debut doesn't pull many punches - although the characters certainly field their share of body blows. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Character-driven thriller, which plays out against a backdrop of desperation, self-loathing and grinding poverty. - 63
New York Post
A chilling pulp movie told with a pavement-eye view of the dregs of humanity. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Writer-director Paul Andrew Williams' unnecessarily hectic debut feature won several British film festival awards, no doubt for its bounty of low-budget stylized violence and blood, as well as its thing for prostitutes and runaways. - 50
Variety
Does what it does well but too often seems a pointless exercise in British miserabilism crossed with a nasty gangster yarn. - 50
The New York Times
A slice of social realism, a wedge of naturalism, a symbolically freighted fairy tale -- at times, London to Brighton feels like all of these combined, which, before it all turns to mush, gives the film the aspect of a fascinating and ambitious pastiche. There’s something provocative about Mr. Williams’s attempt to join together so many conflicting, contradictory influences, even if in the end they manage only to cancel one another out. - 40
Village Voice
LTB offers a fresh (if grimy) contribution to kitchen-sink realism, but little to the tiresome persistence of vicious British gangster chic.
