Cass
In a true story, an adopted Jamaican baby adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London becomes one of the most-respected and most-feared men in Britain.
1983, Plumstead, London, England, UK
20 February 1983, London, England, UK
4 February 1950, Pluckley, Kent, England, UK
25 April 1989, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK
1950, Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
1973, London, England, UK
August 01, 2008
It never fully convinces you that he deserves a movie.
August 01, 2008
The film's repetitive structure never quite resolves into something we can properly engage with, especially when a somewhat heavy-handed message rears its head.
August 01, 2008
Crunchier than an ICF coshing and about as subtle.
August 01, 2008
It is a bit better than many recent lipsmacking movies on similar subjects... but there's still the same self-serving, self-sentimentalising macho nonsense.
August 01, 2008
What follows is your standard footy ruck saga - stabbings, jail, love of a good woman.
July 31, 2008
Though the narrative is saggy and you feel there's nowhere left to go after the first hour, a much-needed dash of class from Jon S Baird's direction helps lift 'Cass' above its oft-reactionary genre brethren.
August 01, 2008
This is an engaging, well made and sharply written British drama that is definitely worth seeing. Great soundtrack too.
August 01, 2008
A mature take on this most contentious of issues, and quite possibly the best film on the subject in 20 years.
July 31, 2008
Cass has more heart than your average hooligan flick, but it's a clumsy, compromised film, hamstrung by its own redemptive structure and too infatuated with its protagonist to take an objective point of view.
August 01, 2008
When Anozie isn't delivering a tired voiceover about honour on the terraces, we're treated to rubbish fights, feeble dialogue and mockney accents. Dreadful.
August 01, 2008
Inanimate dialogue and plodding pacing don't give the talented cast much to work with, and the camera is directed with all the grace of a pub brawl at closing time.
August 01, 2008
There isn't, in fact, a single off-key performance in what is otherwise an ordinary film.
