Green Street Hooligans
After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard undergrad Matt Buckner moves in with his sister in London where he meets football hooligan Pete Dunham, who introduces him to his rough tribal world of football Hooliganism. Green Street Hooligans' is a story of loyalty, trust and the sometimes brutal consequences of living close to the edge.
April 19, 1978 in Walvisbay, Namibia
10 April 1980, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
18 August 1959, West Sussex, England, UK
December 01, 2005
Nothing hits harder, or with less tact, than the overriding message, that Matt is really looking for a surrogate family.
October 21, 2005
There's a good movie to be made about the violent world of British soccer, or football, as it's called on the other side of the pond. This isn't it.
October 11, 2005
Pic amply demonstrates that Alexander -- director of Johnny Flynton, 2003 Oscar nominee for dramatic short -- has the chops to bring a fresh take to onscreen rough stuff.
November 18, 2005
At least three writers collaborated on a script that drums out loudly its themes of loyalty, honor and revenge, and the finished product dances quickly enough between cliches to make for passable entertainment.
April 02, 2006
Hunnam e Wood exibem imensa segurança ao carregarem o filme, que também desperta nosso interesse através da análise dos motivos que levam pessoas comuns à violência das torcidas organizadas.
October 29, 2005
It swims and sinks in melodrama.
October 14, 2005
The script is a jumble of caricatures and cliches.
December 16, 2005
Green Street Hooligans loses any credibility it might have had the minute it tries to pass off Elijah Wood as a tough guy.
October 20, 2005
German kickboxer-turned-director Lexi Alexander's brutal, unsparing portrait of disaffected youth running rampant amid the football stands and terraces of jolly old England.
October 13, 2005
It's what you thought Fight Club was going to be, before it went in a whole other (and far more interesting) direction.
October 27, 2005
[Alexander] is a better anthropologist than dramatist and her snapshot of this culture is more revealing than the story crafted around it.
October 13, 2005
Soccer needs this movie like Georgia needed Deliverance.
