If only they'd had a computer, they could have sold the stolen St. James Park penalty spot on e-Bay. Oh well.
Alan Shearer pops up in a cameo - he should definitely stick to the day job - and subsequently has his car/"fanny magnet" stolen and his CD collection made public - including Celine Dion and "that slapper with the patch". All in good fun of course. Although I doubt Shearer drives a convertible Jag, but I could be wrong.
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Other than that we get a sprinkling of various Geordie losers - a shaven-headed, multi-pierced, tattooed nose-biter with a crazed love of dogs, Gerry's mother who gets admitted to hospital after smoking 40-a-day (shared with the night-clubbing baby of course), his wife-beating father who dies while Gerry is in a prison cell for attempted bank robbery, and his drug-addict sister who lives in a fairground ride. So it ain't the cheeriest of tales, but I'm sure the director would claim it to be 'realistic' all the same.
Incidentally, Mark Herman brought us both 'Brassed Off' and 'The Little Voice' (both very impressive UK films), and I enjoyed those in very much the same way I enjoyed this. 7/10
Alan Shearer pops up in a cameo - he should definitely stick to the day job - and subsequently has his car/"fanny magnet" stolen and his CD collection made public - including Celine Dion and "that slapper with the patch". All in good fun of course. Although I doubt Shearer drives a convertible Jag, but I could be wrong.
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Other than that we get a sprinkling of various Geordie losers - a shaven-headed, multi-pierced, tattooed nose-biter with a crazed love of dogs, Gerry's mother who gets admitted to hospital after smoking 40-a-day (shared with the night-clubbing baby of course), his wife-beating father who dies while Gerry is in a prison cell for attempted bank robbery, and his drug-addict sister who lives in a fairground ride. So it ain't the cheeriest of tales, but I'm sure the director would claim it to be 'realistic' all the same.
Incidentally, Mark Herman brought us both 'Brassed Off' and 'The Little Voice' (both very impressive UK films), and I enjoyed those in very much the same way I enjoyed this. 7/10