FOOTBALL FACTORY

                                                                 

 

There's nothing different about me. I'm just another bored male, approaching 30, in a dead-end job,

        who lives for the weekend. Casual sex, watered-down lager, heavily cut drugs. And

                     occasionally kicking f**k out of someone.

 

"The Football Factory" focuses on two different groups of English football supporters -- the Headhunters, who support Chelsea F.C., and the Bushwackers, who support Millwall F.C. Throughout the movie, the Headhunters fight with other English groups such as those supporting Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Liverpool F.C., and Stoke City F.C..

The film follows Tommy Johnson (Dyer), a football hooligan in his mid 20s who has begun to question his morals and the morals of those around him. Tommy's major conflict in the film stems from his inevitable aging. Although he loves his weekend 'meets', he knows he cannot possibly play forever.

While enjoying a night out with his pal Rod, they meet a couple of young women in a bar and both end up back at one of the girls' houses. In the morning, Tommy awakes to a man sitting over him with a knife against his throat. Rod arrives at the scene, hits the man over the head with a cricket bat, and they both are able to run home alive but causing what is know as the Butterfly Effect because the man with the knife is revealed to be Millwall Fred's (Hassan) brother, who begins to track down Tommy.

The climax of the film is set around two of the main groups, (Millwall and Chelsea) meeting for a brawl, Billy tells Tommy he is going to take a gun to the fight, Tommy is shocked, but Billy tells him it's only a flare gun. Near the end of the movie, the fight takes place and Tommy gets put in hospital. He says on the voice over (and also said a lot of the times through-out the film) "was it worth it?," and then "'course it fucking was!" Zeberdee is seen going to the pub toilet and snorting Cocaine, the drug dealer he robbed and beat-up earlier is seen coming into the toilet carrying a hand gun, he says "what's happening, zeber-f**king-dee?", Tommy is seen coming into the toilet. The gun goes off, killing Zeberdee, then the credits come up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Directed by Nick Love
Produced by Allan Niblo
James Richardson
Written by John King
Nick Love
Starring Danny Dyer
Frank Harper
Tamer Hassan
Matthew Baggott
Roland Manookian
Neil Maskell
Dudley Sutton
Music by Ivor Guest
Distributed by Vertigo Films
Release date(s) May 14, 2004
Running time 91 min. (approx.)
Language English
Budget £500,000

      

 

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