What else you gonna do on a Saturday?
Based on the best selling novel by John King, The football factory is a study of middle England, football violence and male culture. The story centres around Tommy Johnson a bored twentysomething who lives for the weekend, casual sex, watered down lager, heavily cut drugs... and occasionally kicking the fuck out of someone. Tommy's life ambles along until a violent encounter with a rival firm top boy starts a tit-for-tat war and a series of nightmares that force him to ask himself the question about his life: is it worth it?
Told through Tommy's eyes and linked together by his relationships with three other generations of males, The football factory is a drug-fuelled adrenaline rush of a story about friendship, revenge and violence.
This is England's worst nightmare. Enjoy it.
Special Agent Matti
Here we go, here we go, here we go...
The football factory is a film about great, big, boofy lager louts going out to bash some heads in, preferably heads that belong to other people. In that sense it's a lot like A clockwork orange, a lost group of unfocused, testosterone wielding boys trying desperately to be men. In another age they might have been Gladiators; today, they're just hooligans. Watch if you're into a bit of mindless violence.
MA 15+ (Strong coarse language, frequent drug use, medium level violence)
94 minutes (1:34 hours)
Film: 14 October 2004
DVD rental: 30 March 2005
VHS rental: 30 March 2005
