FROM the archive reels of Roland Rat to the bloodied stumps of injured soldiers in the Falklands War, Shane Meadows' best film yet pays unsentimental homage to life in the 1980s.
Shaun is 11 years old, his dad has been killed in the Falklands and the summer holiday stretches before him. Saved from a cycle of being bullied by a gang of local skinheads, Shaun suddenly finds the protection of a flawed family'.
The arrival of jail bird Combo upsets the balance as he deposes old friend Woody as gang leader and starts imposing his twisted, racist world view as the story builds to a single act of violence that catapults Shaun into adulthood. The fully loaded second disc provides a wealth of extras.
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