TwentyFourSeven

Shane Meadow’s directorial feature debut chronicles the lives of a group of working-class youths transformed through their involvement with a local boxing club.

  • Director

    Shane Meadows

  • With

    Bob Hoskins, Karl Collins, James Corden, Bruce Jones

  • UK 1997. 96min

  • Digital (remaster)

  • Certificate

    15

Bob Hoskins achieved a career high with his portrait of Alan Darcy, a kindly everyman who reopens a local boxing club in Nottingham. It transformed him when he was young and he hopes it will have the same impact upon a group of delinquent youths who are drawn to crime. As he prepares them for a public boxing match, the boys find much-needed friendship and self-respect, realising that winning doesn’t only happen in the ring.

Remastered by the BFI.

The screening of TwentyFourSeven on Tuesday 21 April will include a Q&A with director Shane Meadows.