Another edgy little British Film

Rating: 8/10 (12 March 2000)

The Brits seem to make two kinds of films: costume dramas from the days of the empire and edgy, dark ,stories about the working classes featuring young, very Brit-looking actors. This is definitely the latter.
Fast-paced, coherent, consistently funny, it pictures today's England, not Victoria's. Though it might take one, two, or even three viewings to get a handle on the accents, you won't mind sitting through it again--and again. Lends support to my feeling the edgiest cinema today is coming out of England. Somehow, they manage to tell these stories with heart and humour. And the sound track consistently keeps the excitement going.