- Actors: Tom Beard, James Bellamy, Robin Berry, Rachael Blake, Samantha Bond
- Directors: Adrian Shergold
- Writers: Kevin Elyot
- Producers: Elinor Day, John Smithson, Kate Murrell
- Format: Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Here
- DVD Release Date: 26 Oct 2010
- Run Time: 120 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B003VE9WPG
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 12,817 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A series of seemingly unconnected vignettes - a groom makes moves on a waiter during his civil-partnership reception; an East-end postman attacks men he picks up in gay bars; Theo, a 14-year-old male, sets out to seduce his 30-something neighbour - all prove to be connected, in this exquisite, brutal satire (written by Kevin Elyot and directed by Adrian Shergold).
These disparate events coalesce in a dinner party hosted by a barrister and his wife, one steamy summer evening in London. The inimitably bourgeois guests - doctors, lawyers, housewives, and a token gay writer - form a grotesque contemporary symposium of the most insipid and hypocritical middle-class 'values'.
Although originally broadcast as a one-off drama on Channel Four several years ago, the startling beauty of CLAPHAM JUNCTION is its enduring, penetrating incision. The veneer is stripped away, revealing the petty fascisms that dominate modern culture in the guises of liberal toleration, queer assimilation, and think-of-the-children protectionism. While - necessarily - a bleak work, if we are offered a single shard of optimism it is that embodied by 14-year-old Theo in his quiet yet courageous rebellion, reminding us that the apocalyptic destruction our culture so sorely needs must unfold through localised experimentation.
CLAPHAM JUNCTION's superb and impressive cast, including Joseph Mawle, Rupert Graves, James Wilby, Tom Beard and Phoebe Nicholls, are utterly convincing in their various portrayals. An emotionally-engaging work of the finest quality, this production is highly-recommended.
These disparate events coalesce in a dinner party hosted by a barrister and his wife, one steamy summer evening in London. The inimitably bourgeois guests - doctors, lawyers, housewives, and a token gay writer - form a grotesque contemporary symposium of the most insipid and hypocritical middle-class 'values'.
Although originally broadcast as a one-off drama on Channel Four several years ago, the startling beauty of CLAPHAM JUNCTION is its enduring, penetrating incision. The veneer is stripped away, revealing the petty fascisms that dominate modern culture in the guises of liberal toleration, queer assimilation, and think-of-the-children protectionism. While - necessarily - a bleak work, if we are offered a single shard of optimism it is that embodied by 14-year-old Theo in his quiet yet courageous rebellion, reminding us that the apocalyptic destruction our culture so sorely needs must unfold through localised experimentation.
CLAPHAM JUNCTION's superb and impressive cast, including Joseph Mawle, Rupert Graves, James Wilby, Tom Beard and Phoebe Nicholls, are utterly convincing in their various portrayals. An emotionally-engaging work of the finest quality, this production is highly-recommended.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I had earlier viewed a 90-minute version of the Clapham Junction as broadcast in 2007 by the BBC. An IMDB review of that presentation of starts, "Over a two day period a series of interconnected events impact a disparate group of [gay] Londoners," and that is quite accurate even if the period is about 36 hours. It is interesting that this DVD remains unreleased in the UK.
Clapham Junction is not far from Lavender Hill, the location for The Lavender Hill Mob, but that was a comedy and this certainly is not.
In 2005, Jody Dobrowski suffered a horrendously brutal murder on Clapham Common, and a similar event is central to this film, which is an ultimately depressing and sometimes shocking exploration of contemporary urban gay sexuality. Some of the characters are deeply unpleasant, dishonest and self absorbed. But you will want to watch them.
One gay youth who play the violin is clearly intimidated and frightened by gangs on his walk to his teacher, whilst another gay inbetweener embraces his homosexuality and relentlessly stalks an older gay neighbor. Some of the gay yuppies are married but unfaithful to their wives in the type of park restrooms frequented by George Michael, and one who marries his partner dallies with a server boy in the kitchen after the ceremony. It is hardly justice when a gay gay-basher gets bashed himself. And you are forced to watch, or not.
The actors sometimes rise above the material. Paul Nichols is clearly full of himself as his character, Terry, and the scene in which he dresses for a night out is great, though one surprising scene reportedly used a stand-in. The film unites James Wilby and Rupert Graves of Maurice, but their relationship could not be more different than what they shared in that film, though both were, again, brave to take their roles. David Leon is powerful in his role as Alfie Cartwright (the Jody Dobrowski character). But Luke Treadway as young Theo pursuing a reluctant Joseph Mawle as Tim is absolutely chilling, and worth the price of the DVD if anything is.
You will never forget Clapham Junction if you watch it. But there is some hard-to-watch "bad" mixed with the "good" (the performances).
Clapham Junction is not far from Lavender Hill, the location for The Lavender Hill Mob, but that was a comedy and this certainly is not.
In 2005, Jody Dobrowski suffered a horrendously brutal murder on Clapham Common, and a similar event is central to this film, which is an ultimately depressing and sometimes shocking exploration of contemporary urban gay sexuality. Some of the characters are deeply unpleasant, dishonest and self absorbed. But you will want to watch them.
One gay youth who play the violin is clearly intimidated and frightened by gangs on his walk to his teacher, whilst another gay inbetweener embraces his homosexuality and relentlessly stalks an older gay neighbor. Some of the gay yuppies are married but unfaithful to their wives in the type of park restrooms frequented by George Michael, and one who marries his partner dallies with a server boy in the kitchen after the ceremony. It is hardly justice when a gay gay-basher gets bashed himself. And you are forced to watch, or not.
The actors sometimes rise above the material. Paul Nichols is clearly full of himself as his character, Terry, and the scene in which he dresses for a night out is great, though one surprising scene reportedly used a stand-in. The film unites James Wilby and Rupert Graves of Maurice, but their relationship could not be more different than what they shared in that film, though both were, again, brave to take their roles. David Leon is powerful in his role as Alfie Cartwright (the Jody Dobrowski character). But Luke Treadway as young Theo pursuing a reluctant Joseph Mawle as Tim is absolutely chilling, and worth the price of the DVD if anything is.
You will never forget Clapham Junction if you watch it. But there is some hard-to-watch "bad" mixed with the "good" (the performances).
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
It is now a few years that this drama was aired on Channel 4 as a one off. It centres around the (in)famous Clapham Common and in vignettes tells the stories of people living around it and those that cross the park for one or other reason.
This is a striking drama, excellently acted out particularly by Paul Nicholls who plays a closet-gay gay-basher (well, how deep are the recesses in the closets of Narnia really?), but a round of applause also to the other actors who frame the central theme wonderfully.
In part this drama is based on the real-time murder of a Polish bartender by gay bashers some time ago and other attacks on males (indisciminate) on Clapham Common by thugs and bullies. The bartender just happened to be there at the wrong time. The drama rolls out in its story what the possible motivavtion and psychological background of gay-bashing in general and on the Common in particularly could be.
Paul Nicholls has a distinguished career on TV and stage and is quite happy to take on gay related themes. After all he was the young eye-candy and heart throb on Eastenders for quite a few episodes.
It is a shame though that this film is not available in PAL format.
This is a striking drama, excellently acted out particularly by Paul Nicholls who plays a closet-gay gay-basher (well, how deep are the recesses in the closets of Narnia really?), but a round of applause also to the other actors who frame the central theme wonderfully.
In part this drama is based on the real-time murder of a Polish bartender by gay bashers some time ago and other attacks on males (indisciminate) on Clapham Common by thugs and bullies. The bartender just happened to be there at the wrong time. The drama rolls out in its story what the possible motivavtion and psychological background of gay-bashing in general and on the Common in particularly could be.
Paul Nicholls has a distinguished career on TV and stage and is quite happy to take on gay related themes. After all he was the young eye-candy and heart throb on Eastenders for quite a few episodes.
It is a shame though that this film is not available in PAL format.
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Clapham Junction
I had seen this movie during a movie festival some years ago in Sydney and found it compelling viewing then and also when I watched this DVD. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Robert Thompson
Why no UK release ?????
Been waiting for this to come out for ages. Cannot understand for the life of me why this has not had a UK release on DVD.
Published 13 months ago by Mr. D. Liddell
Bittersweet, and wonderfully real.
I wont go into plot details and spoil anything, but I can say that I enjoyed the interlinking of the separate lives , as well as a few surprising plot twists. Read more
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