''Boston Kickout'' is a

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

British

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...

feature film A feature film or feature-length film is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term ''feature film'' originall ...

written and directed by Paul Hills. It won the Euskal Media Prize at the

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, Best Actor ( John Simm) at the Cinema Jove International Film Festival in Valencia and Best Film at the Bermuda International Film Festival.

Plot

Schoolleaver Phil (Simm) – who moved with his father from an inner-city slum to what he was told would be a brighter future in Stevenage – finds himself caught up in a world of unemployment, violence, alcoholism and drug abuse in Nineties Britain.

Cast

* John Simm as Phil *

Andrew Lincoln Andrew James Clutterbuck (born 14 September 1973), known professionally as Andrew Lincoln, is an English actor. His first major role was as the character Egg in the BBC drama '' This Life'' (1996–1997). Lincoln later portrayed Simon Casey i ...

as Ted *

Marc Warren Marc Warren (born 20 March 1967) is an English actor, known for his British television roles. His roles have included Albert Blithe in '' Band of Brothers'', Danny Blue in '' Hustle'', Dougie Raymond in ''The Vice'', Dominic Foy in '' State ...

as Robert * Emer McCourt as Shona * Richard Hanson as Steven * Nathan Valente as Matt * Jamie Beckett as Dopey

Reception

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British drama films 1990s English-language films {{1990s-UK-film-stub