Down Terrace
Bill and his son, Karl, work together in the oldest of family businesses, organized crime. After spending a few days in jail, they return home and realize they may have a rat in their midst. The duo then looks to unmask the police informant who threatens to take down their business.
7 October 1978, Rochford, Essex, England, UK
21 July 1957, Horne, Surrey, England, UK
1952, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England, UK
1963, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
27 May 1963, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
November 29, 2010
Has some poignant moments but gets lost along the way in the macabre.
November 11, 2010
A low-budget effort by British director Ben Wheatley, Down Terrace is an enjoyably nasty piece of business about a down-market sort of underworld clan.
October 15, 2010
Down Terrace is the auspicious feature debut of Ben Wheatley, who's spent a decade directing sitcoms, Web-isodes and commercials while fruitlessly pitching scripts to Hollywood.
October 29, 2010
The junior Hill's script, written with director Wheatley, very deliberately considers the abilities of each of its elements, from the inanimate to the human, and uses each to their best effect.
June 17, 2013
[Julia Deakin's] Ma Barker role (and performance) is essential to the film's grotesque yet enthralling familial fatalism.
November 12, 2010
The British do kitchen-sink realism extremely well; they also have a nice way with black comedy. It's rare, however, to see the two as wickedly combined as they are in Down Terrace.
October 27, 2010
A dark and hilarious thwomping of the whole miserablist British gangster genre.
December 15, 2010
This is the sort of thing you'd expect if the Coen Brothers were British and they decided to do their own version of a "Sopranos" movie set in Brighton, England.
October 22, 2010
Doesn't provide much of an electric charge until very late in the game, making the first two acts of the picture an incredible test of endurance for anyone not utterly devoted to the throttled fury of British kitchen sink dramas.
October 15, 2010
A grimly amusing portrait of a closed system in which the pressure is building to an explosion.
October 28, 2010
Chances are you've never seen a crime family like the one in Ben Wheatley's unusual, ferociously witty dark comedy Down Terrace.
October 22, 2010
Its litany of outrageous abuses and horrible crimes, as it careens from delicately phrased dinner-table insults to old ladies murdered in the street, is often gaspingly, ridiculously funny.
