The Young Americans (1993)

Director:

Danny Cannon

Writers:

Danny Cannon (writer) &
David Hilton (writer)

Release Date:

8 octubre 1993 (UK)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Frase comercial:

London Is Not Only Losing Her Soul To The Americans, She's Selling It.

Plot:

The London police is having trouble with organized crime commited by juvenile delinquents. Their leader...

Plot Keywords:

American Abroad | Police | Bar | Drugs | Gangster

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Noisy and annoying treatment of a basically interesting story of rival drug lords.

Cast

Harvey Keitel	...	John Harris
Iain Glen	...	Edward Foster
John Wood	...	Richard Donnelly
Terence Rigby	...	Sidney Callow
Keith Allen	...	Jack Doyle
Craig Kelly	...	Christian O'Neill
Thandie Newton	...	Rachael Stevens
Viggo Mortensen	...	Carl Frazer
Dave Duffy	...	Louis Carnegie
Geoffrey McGivern	...	Brian Carver
Nigel Clauzel	...	Lionel Stevens
Huggy Leaver	...	Mark Byrne
Dig Wayne	...	Gary Washington
Christopher Adamson	...	Billy Cohen (as Chris Adamson)
James Duggan	...	Dermot O'Neill

Duración:

UK:103 min | Brazil:104 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby SR

Clasificación:

Finland:K-16 | Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Norway:18 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Jacob Street Studios, Jacob Street, Bermondsey, London, England, UK

Company:

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

Trivialidades:

During one of the club scenes, a remix of Nine Inch Nails' "Gave Up" is playing. This version has never been released officially or unofficially and the only know fragment can be heard in this movie. It appears to be an alteration of the remix found on NIN's EP "Fixed."

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Kicking and Screaming (1995)

Soundtrack:

15 Minutes Of Fame

Noisy and annoying treatment of a basically interesting story of rival drug lords.

You have to watch carefully, wearing ear protectors, to figure out that this film is about a bloody war waged by "young american" drug lords against the old hands in London. There is an American DEA agent to "advise" the London bobbies, but he isn't young. He does have an agenda of his own, but it emerges only obscurely, as does everything else, except the noise. Even the dialog is all but incomprehensible. It's a strange way to tell a story. The editing is of a piece with the rest of the treatment. Confusing. There are pluses, though. The camera work is innovative and often beautiful images emerge from the general murk. The cast, apart from Keitel, were largely unknown to me, but they were mostly first rate at limning the many characters in the London underworld. Many were also uncredited, strange in an era when the post credits usually scroll for at least 7 minutes.