Product Description
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Hard-hitting football hooligan drama, starring Elijah Wood. Matt
Buckner (Wood) is a Harvard journalism student who has just been
expelled from college. Drifting across the Atlantic to London to
stay with relatives, Matt meets Pete Dunham (Charlie Hunnam), the
leader of a local West Ham 'firm', and finds himself gradually
drawn into the violent underworld of football hooliganism.
Meanwhile, Pete's oldest friend and second in command of the
firm, Bovver (Leo Gregory), starts to resent Mat's new position
in the group and secretly plots to take him down.
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After the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Elijah Wood (
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could've opted for further big budget epics, but took a sharp
left turn with this better-than-average B-movie. Released just
after Everything is Illuminated, another offbeat entry, Wood
plays journalism student Matt Buckner. In the prologue, he's
expelled from Harvard when his over-privileged roommate sets him
up to take the fall for his own misdeeds. With nowhere to go,
Matt decides to visit his sister, Shannon (Claire Forlani (
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)), in London. He's already got a chip on his shoulder when he
falls under the sway of Shannon's brother-in-law, Pete (Charlie
Hunnam), head of West Ham's football "firm," the Green Street
Elite. Matt soon gets caught up in their thuggish anticsto
tragic effect. In her feature debut, German-born Lexi Alexander
makes a mostly convincing case for the attractions of violence to
the emotionally vulnerable, as sed to the emotionally numb
pugilists of the more satirical Fight Club. Unlike David Fincher
(by way of Chuck Palahniuk), she plays it straight, except for
the stylised fight sequences. Consequently, humour is in short
supply, but the young Brit cast, especially Leo Gregory as the
surly Bovver, is charismatic and Wood makes his character as
believable as possible, i.e. he may seem miscast, but that's the
point. Although there's no (direct) correlation between the two,
Green Street makes a fine taster for Bill Buford's Among the
Thugs, the ultimate dissection of the hooligan mentality.
--Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Synopsis
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Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) is a student who travels to London,
where he forms an unlikely bond with his sisters husband's
brother, Pete Dunham (Charlie Hunnam), who introduces him to the
world of football hooliganism. Violence breaks out at a West Ham
game that Matt attends with Pete and Matt's initial trepidation
at the violence swelling around him soon turns into a
pulse-racing, visceral thrill. Suddenly finding a taste for the
hooligan life, Matt joins Pete's "firm," the Green Street Elite,
leading to further booze-fuelled confrontations and providing an
rtunity for Matt to keep a journal explaining why he's
attracted to such a violent pursuit. Surprisingly, Elijah Wood
manages to fit perfectly into a role that seems ill-suited to his
elfin, wide-eyed looks. Charlie Hunnam--who starred in the
television programmes Queer As Folk and Undeclared--neatly
complements Wood as the cockney boy who leads him into danger,
and together the two actors manage to carve out convincingly
violent characters. Thematically similar to The Football Factory,
Green Street mixes loud, energetic soundtrack and roaming,
trembling camera work to create a disquieting atmosphere in a
movie punctuated with scenes of rampant brutality.
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