Jawbone
Former youth boxing champion Jimmy McCabe, after hitting rock bottom, returns to his childhood boxing club and his old team, gym owner Bill and corner-man Eddie.
19 February 1957, Hackney, London, England, UK
23 October 1953, Manchester, England, UK
10 July 1987, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
26 May 1981, England, UK
29 September 1942, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
1974, Lambeth, London, England, UK
May 12, 2017
It isn't just a boxing film. It's not even mainly a boxing film. It is also, with piercing, heartbreaking honesty, a chronicle of addiction.
June 02, 2017
Like Steve McQueen's Shame or Gerard Johnson's Hyena, Jawbone is an intense and close-up depiction of a scarred individual going about his business with, largely, disastrous consequences.
May 14, 2017
The familiar boxing movie trajectory doesn't lessen the forceful punch of this underdog story.
May 12, 2017
Harris ... has built and rendered a character Ken Loach might have won awards for.
May 12, 2017
Rocky meets I, Daniel Blake may sound like a horrendous pitch, but the bones of just that are in this muscular feature debut from the character actor, and now writer and producer, Johnny Harris.
May 08, 2017
Johnny Harris loosely fictionalises his backstory into a bleak and bruising, if humourless, low-budget drama.
June 01, 2017
Jawbone may be an example of the catharsis of filmmaking and storytelling, the first time effort at screenwriting for Harris and feature direction for Napper has culminated in a solid piece of filmmaking.
May 12, 2017
This is a solid film making achievement for Harris and Napper. They've successfully tackled the story with an original angle whilst still playing tribute to the conventions of the boxing narrative.
May 11, 2017
[An] impressively lean and stripped-down sports drama ...
May 15, 2017
As a writing debut for Harris and a feature-directing debut for Napper, this is extremely promising. As a role for Harris, it's a sign that a great British actor may have just hit his moment.
May 11, 2017
A raw, honest and touching film as much about grief and dependency as it is about boxing.
May 18, 2017
While the basic framework of the Jawbone story hardly feels fresh, the execution from everyone involved makes it easy to overlook some of the more familiar elements. It's a sobering film, in many ways, and a quietly impressive one throughout.
