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A dark, gritty British thriller based on the best-selling novel of the same name, set in the dangerous underworld of the one of the UK’s toughest prisons.
Screwed stars some of the UK’s best acting talent including James D’Arcy (W.E, Master & Commander), BAFTA Award winning actor Noel Clarke (Kidulthood, 4.3.2.1) Frank Harper (The Football Factory), Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake), Andrew Shim (This Is England) and Kate Magowan (Stardust).
Fresh from a traumatic tour of Iraq, Sam Norwood (James D'Arcy) finds himself forced to take a job as a Prison Officer in one of her Majesty's most brutal institutions. On the inside he learns the ropes from his colleagues, a bunch of hardened 'screws', but his life begins to spiral out of control as he drinks and takes drugs to help him deal with the stresses and strains of the job and his past. As he nears rock-bottom, he is unprepared to learn the hardest lesson of all: that the screws are often as corrupt as the criminals they keep.
Screwed stars some of the UK’s best acting talent including James D’Arcy (W.E, Master & Commander), BAFTA Award winning actor Noel Clarke (Kidulthood, 4.3.2.1) Frank Harper (The Football Factory), Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake), Andrew Shim (This Is England) and Kate Magowan (Stardust).
Fresh from a traumatic tour of Iraq, Sam Norwood (James D'Arcy) finds himself forced to take a job as a Prison Officer in one of her Majesty's most brutal institutions. On the inside he learns the ropes from his colleagues, a bunch of hardened 'screws', but his life begins to spiral out of control as he drinks and takes drugs to help him deal with the stresses and strains of the job and his past. As he nears rock-bottom, he is unprepared to learn the hardest lesson of all: that the screws are often as corrupt as the criminals they keep.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Screwed is the tale of ex-marine Sam (James D'Arcy - Flashbacks Of A Fool) who comes home after his harrowing service to a depressed job-market. With mouths to feed & few options, he signs up as a prison guard at HMP Wakefield where he is met by a multitude of characters, guards (screws, as they are called) & cons alike. After being propositioned by resident top-dog Truman (Noel Clarke - 4.3.2.1) and faced with the rife corruption, he begins to question whether there is anything separating the guards & the cons apart from the bars?
This is an excellent prison drama, concisely shot by director Reg Traviss, about the morality of guarding prisoners. When drug-use outside the prison in the personal lives of the 'screws' prompts Sam to ask "it's a bit hypocritical ain't it?" he's not half-wrong. This is an excellent moral struggle for Sam throughout the 1hr45min duration, that is well supported by the able-bodied cast, notably Frank Harper (Billy Bright out of Football Factory) & the fantastic Jamie Foreman (Snatch). Noel Clarke's Truman is a duplicitous character and this keeps an electric sense of tension throughout this film as we see Sam, poorly supported at home, become trapped between poverty & the job.
Highly recommended for a gritty British prison drama, violent in places, with some notable faces and decent acting!!
This is an excellent prison drama, concisely shot by director Reg Traviss, about the morality of guarding prisoners. When drug-use outside the prison in the personal lives of the 'screws' prompts Sam to ask "it's a bit hypocritical ain't it?" he's not half-wrong. This is an excellent moral struggle for Sam throughout the 1hr45min duration, that is well supported by the able-bodied cast, notably Frank Harper (Billy Bright out of Football Factory) & the fantastic Jamie Foreman (Snatch). Noel Clarke's Truman is a duplicitous character and this keeps an electric sense of tension throughout this film as we see Sam, poorly supported at home, become trapped between poverty & the job.
Highly recommended for a gritty British prison drama, violent in places, with some notable faces and decent acting!!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is a very good british. Noel Clarke has successfully created another great film. The story line is simple however it is bought to life extreamly well by the actors used.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This review is written from the point of view of someone who has read the book first, then watched the film.
If you're just planning on watching the film, you'll probably think its ok. You may even think its better than ok! Don't bother buying the film if you've read the book first; rent it or borrow it instead.
When I read Screwed, I didn't realise it had been made into a film. When I found out that it had, I was happy as I'd enjoyed the book and thought I'd give it a try.
As it turns out the film is a big disappointment by comparison to the book, which is a decent account of British prison life, from the point of view of a prison warden. Other than the fact that the film's cast is mostly male, and the setting is a prison built in the Victorian era, the film has virtually nothing to do with the book. The names aren't even the same in most cases, nor do many of the book's characters make an appearance! Barely any of the stories from the book have made it into the film, and those that have don't have the same impact as they did on paper.
The film turns the morality of Thompson's clique of prison wardens from the book right on its head. Instead of representing the screws as a work-hard, play-hard bunch, he's used the film to make them look like con-bashing, drug-taking morons. Thompson & Co have obviously opted to pander to the audience of Kidulthood etc by glorifying crime and making prisoners look hard done by. Including Noel Clark and Frank Harper in the cast won't have done any harm here either. Still, as long as it pays.
Ronnie Thompson should be gutted. I don't know how he allowed it to happen. I would have expected him to have a more significant input considering he was writer of Screwed the novel, screen writer of Screwed the film and was one of the producers of the film too. You would have thought that, since he wrote the book, he owed it to himself to keep the plot of the film as close to the book as possible. Well, he hasn't.... This film is a classic example of why some books shouldn't be made into films.
I won't bother with a synopsis of the movie, its already on here, and the people who liked the film have done a good job on that front.
If you watch the film, and don't plan on reading the book, you'll doubtless like it and won't see what I'm talking about. I like this genre, and in some respects I wish I'd seen the film first because I know I would have enjoyed it loads.
I've now given the film away.
If you're just planning on watching the film, you'll probably think its ok. You may even think its better than ok! Don't bother buying the film if you've read the book first; rent it or borrow it instead.
When I read Screwed, I didn't realise it had been made into a film. When I found out that it had, I was happy as I'd enjoyed the book and thought I'd give it a try.
As it turns out the film is a big disappointment by comparison to the book, which is a decent account of British prison life, from the point of view of a prison warden. Other than the fact that the film's cast is mostly male, and the setting is a prison built in the Victorian era, the film has virtually nothing to do with the book. The names aren't even the same in most cases, nor do many of the book's characters make an appearance! Barely any of the stories from the book have made it into the film, and those that have don't have the same impact as they did on paper.
The film turns the morality of Thompson's clique of prison wardens from the book right on its head. Instead of representing the screws as a work-hard, play-hard bunch, he's used the film to make them look like con-bashing, drug-taking morons. Thompson & Co have obviously opted to pander to the audience of Kidulthood etc by glorifying crime and making prisoners look hard done by. Including Noel Clark and Frank Harper in the cast won't have done any harm here either. Still, as long as it pays.
Ronnie Thompson should be gutted. I don't know how he allowed it to happen. I would have expected him to have a more significant input considering he was writer of Screwed the novel, screen writer of Screwed the film and was one of the producers of the film too. You would have thought that, since he wrote the book, he owed it to himself to keep the plot of the film as close to the book as possible. Well, he hasn't.... This film is a classic example of why some books shouldn't be made into films.
I won't bother with a synopsis of the movie, its already on here, and the people who liked the film have done a good job on that front.
If you watch the film, and don't plan on reading the book, you'll doubtless like it and won't see what I'm talking about. I like this genre, and in some respects I wish I'd seen the film first because I know I would have enjoyed it loads.
I've now given the film away.
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Good price,great film an received it in a couple of days. I always buy my films from Amazon. But it is always good to read others comments before buying.
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