Sweet sixteen, a Sixteen Films production with Road Movies Filmproduktion and Tornasol/Alta Films in a British, German and Spanish co-production ; a Scottish Screen and BBC Films presentation ; with the support of Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Glasgow Film Office in association with Diaphana Distribution, BIM Distribuzione, Cinéart ARD/Degeto Film and WDR ; screenplay by Paul Laverty ; producer, Rebecca O'Brien ; director, Ken Loach
Type
Label
Sweet sixteen, a Sixteen Films production with Road Movies Filmproduktion and Tornasol/Alta Films in a British, German and Spanish co-production ; a Scottish Screen and BBC Films presentation ; with the support of Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Glasgow Film Office in association with Diaphana Distribution, BIM Distribuzione, Cinéart ARD/Degeto Film and WDR ; screenplay by Paul Laverty ; producer, Rebecca O'Brien ; director, Ken Loach
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: Rated R; for pervasive strong language, drug content, and some violence
Main title
Sweet sixteen
Oclc number
53144972
resource.otherEventInformation
Originally produced as a British motion picture in 2002
Responsibility statement
a Sixteen Films production with Road Movies Filmproduktion and Tornasol/Alta Films in a British, German and Spanish co-production ; a Scottish Screen and BBC Films presentation ; with the support of Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Glasgow Film Office in association with Diaphana Distribution, BIM Distribuzione, Cinéart ARD/Degeto Film and WDR ; screenplay by Paul Laverty ; producer, Rebecca O'Brien ; director, Ken Loach
Runtime
106
Summary
There's precious little sweetness in Liam's life in the weeks before his 16th birthday: his mother is in prison, and his stepfather Stan is a bullying small-time drug dealer. Liam wants a normal life with mom, his older sister and her baby boy, in a caravan he picked out himself. Naïve, driven Liam comes to the attention of a local crime lord, who offers him employment--but with conditions that are merciless. Liam is locked into a destiny that he can't escape, by a country that has written him off. His dreams of escaping to a better life sabotaged by his own refusal to the misery common to his class
Table Of Contents
Star gazers -- Visiting hours -- Disciplined -- House rules -- Audio letter -- Daft idea -- Informant -- Hard sell -- Home -- Brawl -- Interrogation -- Discussion -- Pizza delivery -- Privacy invaded -- Dirty work -- Up in flames -- Revenge -- Like a brother -- Real deal -- New start -- Party -- Letting go -- Confrontation -- End credits
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Contributor
- BIM Distribuzione
- Loach, Ken, 1936-
- Abercromby, Michelle
- Laverty, Paul
- Fenton, George
- O'Brien, Rebecca
- Coulter, Michelle
- Scottish Screen (Organization)
- Sixteen Films (Firm)
- BBC Films
- Tornasol Films
- Diaphana (Firm)
- Morris, Jonathan, 1949-
- Lions Gate Home Entertainment
- Compston, Martin
- Road Movies Filmproduktion
- Westdeutscher Rundfunk
- Johnson, Martin, 1939-2003
- Alta Films
- Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen GmbH
- McCormack, Gary
- Ruane, William
- Glasgow Film Office
- Fulton, Annmarie.
- Cinéart ARD/Degeto Film (Firm)
- Ackroyd, Barry
Genre
Subject
- Teenagers -- Scotland -- Drama
- Teenage boys -- Drama
- Teen drama
- Foreign films
- Criminal behavior -- Scotland -- Greenock -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Melodrama
- Feature films
- Greenock (Scotland)
- Fiction films
- Films de fiction
- Drug dealers -- Drama
- Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
- Families -- Scotland -- Greenock -- Drama
Content
resource.originPlace
Actor
resource.directorofphotography
resource.editorofmovingimagework
resource.filmdirector
resource.filmproducer
Is Based On
composerexpression
resource.productioncompany
resource.productiondesigner
Publisher
resource.screenwriter
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor26
- BIM Distribuzione
- Loach, Ken, 1936-
- Abercromby, Michelle
- Laverty, Paul
- Fenton, George
- O'Brien, Rebecca
- Coulter, Michelle
- Scottish Screen (Organization)
- Sixteen Films (Firm)
- BBC Films
- Tornasol Films
- Diaphana (Firm)
- Morris, Jonathan, 1949-
- Lions Gate Home Entertainment
- Compston, Martin
- Road Movies Filmproduktion
- Westdeutscher Rundfunk
- Johnson, Martin, 1939-2003
- Alta Films
- Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen GmbH
- McCormack, Gary
- Ruane, William
- Glasgow Film Office
- Fulton, Annmarie.
- Cinéart ARD/Degeto Film (Firm)
- Ackroyd, Barry
- Genre8
- Subject14
- Teenagers -- Scotland -- Drama
- Teenage boys -- Drama
- Teen drama
- Foreign films
- Criminal behavior -- Scotland -- Greenock -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Melodrama
- Feature films
- Greenock (Scotland)
- Fiction films
- Films de fiction
- Drug dealers -- Drama
- Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
- Families -- Scotland -- Greenock -- Drama
- Content1
- resource.originPlace1
- Actor6
- resource.directorofphotography1
- resource.editorofmovingimagework1
- resource.filmdirector1
- resource.filmproducer1
- Is Based On1
- composerexpression1
- Presenter2
- resource.productioncompany4
- resource.productiondesigner1
- Publisher1
- resource.screenwriter1
- Mapped to1