2006
Starring: Lorraine Stanley, Georgia Groome, Johnny Harris, Nathan Constance, Sam Spruell, Alexander Morton
Director: Paul Andrew Williams
Runtime: 85 Minutes
Distributor: Outsider Pictures
Rating: R

For as riotously entertaining as both Lock Stock and Snatch were, Guy Ritchie has a lot to answer for. While international audiences were largely spared the brunt of the pain the misery by a lack of international distribution, most Americans will never know the excruciating pain that even a single viewing of such piss poor clones the likes of Rancid Aluminum, The 51st State, and Love, Honor, and Obey can inflict. Thankfully these last few years have seen something of a moratorium on wearily hip tales cock-er-ney wideboys and their harebrained, desperately ironic escapades, and with it a welcome return to the kind of arresting, gritty, and disgustingly grubby crime dramas Britain used to be very good at.

With that in mind we come to director Paul Andrew Williams 2006 study of urban sickness London to Brighton, a grimy shoestring tale of an on-the-run prostitute, her underage ward, and a perusing pimp it serves as an unpleasant excursion into the sewers of contemporary Britain that leaves a genuinely nasty aftertaste that’s difficult to rinse.

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