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Nil By Mouth (1997)
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Gary Oldman took a break from acting to write and direct this unflinching family drama out of the kitchen-sink British school. Oldman doesn't appear in the film, instead handing the heavy lifting to the remarkable Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast, Cold Mountain) and Kathy Burke, who won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her work. The scummy drug trade of lower-class London is Oldman's turf, but he puts special focus on the miserable cycles of violence that fuel a family's struggle within this world. The results are not always easy to watch, but they are devastating (and the final sequence is chilling). Oldman may be guilty of...
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Nil By Mouth Movie Review by Jarrod  (6/22/2008) |
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'Nil by Mouth' is Gary Oldman's impressive debut as a director, and it must be partly biographic in its depiction of a family in the rough neighborhood of South London, where Oldman was born and raised. This district of the English capital is rife with drugs, crime, and prostitution. It is a blistering and ferocious...
(complete Nil By Mouth review by Jarrod)
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