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Twin Town [VHS] [1997]

VHS ~ Llyr Ifans
4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Llyr Ifans, Rhys Ifans, Dorien Thomas, Dougray Scott, Buddug Williams
  • Directors: Kevin Allen
  • Writers: Paul Durden, Kevin Allen
  • Producers: Andrew Macdonald, Danny Boyle, Peter McAleese
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
  • Language English
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: 4 Front Video
  • VHS Release Date: 10 May 1999
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004R6VU
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,588 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Producer Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) is behind this decadent comedy about a pair of lowlife but oddly intelligent Welsh brothers who generally make a pain of themselves in their small community, but who get serious about exacting revenge for a family tragedy. Director Kevin Allen succeeds at turning the entire film into a jacked-up freak show, with petty terrorism, cops on the take, a young virgin getting it on with a middle-aged creep and a male choir inexplicably singing Mungo Jerry's ancient hit "In the Summertime". Twin Town is loony, nasty stuff all around, but the only good laughs in the movie are top loaded into the first few minutes. After that, it's sheer tedium. --Tom Keogh

Synopsis
Bryn Cartwright, a local roofing contractor and Rugby Club Chairman refuses to pay compensation to fatty Lewis, a man working for him when he falls off a ladder. Fatty's twin sons set out to get revenge for their father...

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars My film of the decade, 7 Sep 2002
This review is from: Twin Town [DVD] [1997] (DVD)
Black humour at is best. A wry and unapologelic look at the seedier side of the South Wales social divide (with a few jests directed at the English thrown in). The 'twins', brothers marked out as losers at the start, are shown with their discordant but aimable family- well meaning parents and 'tart-with-a-heart' sister.
After a scene-setting but fast paced start the plot thickens in a local police/ rugby/ mafia-style drugs wrangle where the 'twins' finally triumph in an eloquant and poiniant finale to a Male Voice Choir. A memorable film with some brilliant one-liners (which have become de rigour in my household and family!)it still has great charm and sense of humour- not to everyone's taste but one I would strongly recommend to all who like the British style of humour.
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This film is pure quality., 7 Mar 2003
This review is from: Twin Town [DVD] [1997] (DVD)
What can I say about this film besides the fact that it is one of my all time favourites. I suppose being from Swansea where the film was based makes it even more hilarious as I actually have met characters like those in the film.
The opening sequences just set the scene for the whole film. A crazy car ride with the twins taking a chunk out of Terry Walshes car resuling in the first line of the film being "F**king Dead. F**king dead as F**k!"
There are some absolutely classic scenes in the film, the Hot dog van being one of my favourites, the one with Mrs Mott and the Diazepam in the stolen BMW and who could forget the boys stealing the hearse with their fathers coffin in from outside the church!
As the film progresses, the theme does get a little darker and grittier, there are what some would call unsavoury scenes. However, it has to be said, the whole film from beginning to end is just a ride through a crazy little town called Swansea full of drugs, car thiefs, bent coppers, local gangsters and their henchmen, prostitutes and supprisingly some real community spirit and family love shown supprisingly by the twins.
Lets all go sing on Mumbles Pier.
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35 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars an ugly, lovely movie..., 7 Dec 2003
This film has suffered by being described everywhere as the 'Welsh Trainspotting'. I think most people miss the point that this is a very enjoyable parody of 'heroin chic' flic genre. I went to the roughest school in Swansea and no one could actually afford real drugs so were stuck with the 'sticky-sticky' (glue and aerosols). Real drugs were the preserve of the snotty, West-end, yachty set (although the town is still in widespread denial of this fact, most people being desperate to move to this side of town so that their children can go to the 'better' schools and get stuck on pot there...)

The film's real theme is the social divide between the different sides of the city expressed through the drug habits of the characters - the posh crook in the ranch-style 'Ponderosa' bungalow trying to get in with the big money heroin set versus the petty glue-sniffing underdogs. The bit where they escape in the yacht might not be the strongest ending in the world dramatically, but it made me split my sides just at the thought of swansea east low-life beating the other side at their own game (and nicking the yacht into the bargain!)

I don't think you have to be from Swansea to enjoy these themes, most big towns probably have similar social divides and tensions, and the myth that there is a single drugs culture is pretty universal too!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ignore the snotty reviews
OK so it followed Trainspotting and it's also about drugs but Twin Town is a great film. Some of the reviews pan this film but they're just Metropolitan snobbery IMO... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Rogthedodge

5.0 out of 5 stars Bought as a present - arrived quickly in good condition
This DVD was bought as a birthday present and arrived in good condition and really quickly.
Thank you
Published 3 months ago by Ms. Rusine Airstone

5.0 out of 5 stars Very funny film , packed with crazy stuff and sad at the end
Apparently this was supposed to do for Swansea what Trainspotting did for Glasgow - well that is not what happened here but don't let that put you off. Read more
Published 3 months ago by A. J. Sudworth

5.0 out of 5 stars under rated
This film is under rated by a number of people who seem to compare it to other films. This film made me laugh, and as im also welsh, i took it all in as a laugh and didnt take it... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mr. I. Powell Morley

5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite film
What a film! both funny and cool. one of the only films i could watch again and again. the dialogue is amazing, and it is just really really cool
Published 17 months ago by Captain Joe Boston

5.0 out of 5 stars "pretty s***tty city"
twin town is a comedy b ased around two brothers who seem to lack all common sence. This film is mostly appreciated by swanseas residents or by people who know swansea well... Read more
Published on 28 Dec 2006 by Lo11y

1.0 out of 5 stars Trainspotting would not put there name on it.
When Twin Town came out alot of people said it was the masterminds behind Trainspotting and Lock Stock & Barrel.But sad to say that's abit of a joke. Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2006 by Mr. N. Fraser

4.0 out of 5 stars Twin Town deserves better
I enjoyed Twin Town. If this film had been made in Italy, or Spain, or France, it would have been acclaimed as a great "foreign" black comedy, and won a BAFTA or two. Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2006 by Mr Peckham

5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME
i live in swansea and its really incredible because there are actually people like that living here. Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2005 by welshpunkchick

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious Comedy
From the very start this movie gets you in the right moood. Swansea's working class is portraid greatly in this comedy. Read more
Published on 19 Aug 2003 by Georginetto

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