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The football factory - Danny Dyer, Frank Harper, Neil Maskell, Nick Love

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Movie propaganda

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.

Theatrical propaganda posters

Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film sport soccer football UK team England thug hooligan fight

Persons of interest

Danny Dyer .... Tommy Johnson
Frank Harper .... Billy Bright
Neil Maskell .... Rod
Roland Manookian .... Zeberdee
Tamer Hassan .... Milwall Jack
Sophie Linfield .... Tamara
Dudley Sutton .... Old Man Farrell
John King .... Author
Nick Love .... Screenwriter
Nick Love .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

The football factory official movie site
The football factory film production notes
The football factory QuickTime movie trailers
Awards and film festivals:

See also Fever pitch, Purely belter
Studios and distributors:

Icon Film Distribution

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

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.