Green Street Hooligans

Length: 109 min

Distributor: Odd Lot Entertainment

Date of Release: 2005-09-09


Starring: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani, Marc Warren, Leo Gregory, Henry Goodman, Geoff Bell, Rafe Spall, Kieran Bew, Ross McCall, Francis Pope, Christopher Hehir

Directed by Lexi Alexander

Produced by Deborah Del Prete, Gigi Pritzker

Written by Lexi Alexander, Dougie Brimson


‘Stand Your Ground’ is the message that is conveyed in the movie.

GSH starts off with a fight scene and then moves on to a show the expulsion of a Harvard student who is caught in a fictitious drug scandal. The scenes move on showing Buckman (Eijah Wood) fling overseas to his sister in England.

From here onwards Matt Buckman is taken to a football match with his sister’s in-laws, Pete Dunham (Charlie Hunnam) and this is where Matt is hooked to football and the supporting gang, better known as a firm, Green Street Elites (GSE).

However, no true American would enjoy watching British lads beat up a Harvard yank after a match of what Westerners call “soccer”. GSH, directed by Lexi Alexander, not only brings audiences into the world of competitive UK football, but also poses important arguments over the value of brotherhood and the lengths at which one would go to remain a part of it.

GSH is not only Matt Buckman’s story, but the story of a female director Alexander. She grew up in Germany with a brother who was an active member of a firm. The stories she lived and the tales he told make for the inspiration in this film.

Knowing that the movie is crafted from autobiographic material, makes the characters’ relationships in the film even more real and touching. There is a working balance between the graphic frame-by-frame fight scenes and the dialogue development between the actors onscreen.

This film is about football fanatics that go over the limits, brotherhood and Standing on your ground. I would like all the football fans to watch the movie.



By:

Taha Sajid