NEDS -- From Britain With Love at the Balboa Theatre
Balboa Theatre San Francisco, CA
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NEDS -- From Britain With Love at the Balboa Theatre
Set in 1970s Glasgow confident, studious and optimistic John McGill is just about to start secondary school. His friendship with middle-class Julian highlights his impoverished and dysfunctional family background. Scared, resentful, full of rage, he makes a decision and joins a gang of NEDs, taking to the savage life of the streets with a vengeance. NEDs are 'Non-Educated Delinquents'. The bad boys with weapons and attitude: cheap drugs, glam rock, fumbling sex, the violence and the camaraderie of the streets. Local monsters and also local heroes. But as John's rage and frustration spin him further and further out of control, he is left facing a blank wall. No future, but with one extraordinary chance of redemption.
"4 STARS. Just when you thought British cinema was in danger of stalling in its default mode along comes NEDs to give it a rude and vital kick up the rear!" Daily Telegraph
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Balboa Theatre
3630 Balboa St. @37th Ave
San Francisco, CA 94121
United States
