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Somers Town (2009)

Somers Town (2009)

Not Rated

A small British comedy with big heart

7.0

Movie

UK, United Kingdom
English
Comedy, Drama
2008
SHANE MEADOWS
Elisa Lasowski, Huggy Leaver, Ireneusz Czop
71 min

What it's about

Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello) lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is working on a new rail link.

The take

In this sweet-natured British comedy filmed mostly in black and white, Marek is a Polish boy who lives with his alcoholic father in London. He meets Tomo, a kid from the British Midlands who escaped his family and came to London alone.

They form a friendship that this movie follows for a few days. With nowhere to stay, Tomo moves in with Marek without Marek’s father noticing. The two end-up plotting a scheme that turns things around both for them and for the styling of the movie.

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