Green Street Hooligans
by Lexi Alexander
List Price:
Our Price: $7.99
You Save: $11.99 (60%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $7.18 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: David Alexander (XVI), Geoff Bell, James Allison, Joel Beckett, Oliver AllisonDirector: Lexi Alexander
Brand: HUNNAM/FORLANI/WOOD
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Green Street Hooligans
Movie Review: Great Idea but fell Short
Summary: 3 Stars
I thought this was a great idea for a movie. I love English football and am familiar with the hooligan issue which made me excited to see it. There are segments in the film that were just great, but, overall, it was too melodramatic for my tastes. Further, the film was a bit clich?d. Elijah Wood plays the classic fatherless son who seeks guidance and affirmation from a gang (which, of course, is precisely what often occurs). The subplot of the privileged politician's son setting him up was again over familiar as was another substrain wherein his sister's husband got married and--yet again!--managed to morph a bad man straight. That was a dubious proposition indeed. As far as the acting goes I thought Charles Hunnam was sensational, but could not buy Wood as (even) a semi-tough firm member. Frodo came off as weak and fragile here. It's hard to suspend belief that he would be anything but dead in a real fight. I was pleased to see though that Tony Adams was given a cameo role.
Summary of Green Street Hooligans
After the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Elijah Wood could've opted for further big budget epics, but took a sharp left turn with this better-than-average B-movie. Released just after Everything is Illuminated, another offbeat entry, Wood plays journalism student Matt Buckner. In the prologue, he's expelled from Harvard when his over-privileged roommate sets him up to take the fall for his own misdeeds. With nowhere to go, Matt decides to visit his sister, Shannon (Claire Forlani), in London. He's already got a chip on his shoulder when he falls under the sway of Shannon's brother-in-law, Pete (Charlie Hunnam), head of West Ham's football "firm," the Green Street Elite. Matt soon gets caught up in their thuggish antics—to tragic effect. In her feature debut, German-born Lexi Alexander makes a mostly convincing case for the attractions of violence to the emotionally vulnerable, as opposed to the emotionally numb pugilists of the more satirical Fight Club. Unlike David Fincher (by way of Chuck Palahniuk), she plays it straight, except for the stylized fight sequences. Consequently, humor is in short supply, but the young Brit cast, especially Leo Gregory as the surly Bovver, is charismatic and Wood makes his character as believable as possible, i.e. he may seem miscast, but that's the point. Although there's no (direct) correlation between the two, Green Street makes a fine taster for Bill Buford's Among the Thugs, the ultimate dissection of the hooligan mentality. --Kathleen C. FennessyA young man moves to London and becomes a soccer hooligan after being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University.
No Track Information Available
Media Type: DVD
Artist: HUNNAM/FORLANI/WOOD
Title: GREEN STREET HOOLIGANS
Street Release Date: 08/29/2006
Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE
Action & Adventure DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in The Green List
Muppet Show Series 1 > Kermit the Frog Action FigurePalisades; Toy
Best price: $21.99
Jim Henson Muppet Babies 8" Kermit Plush DollNanco; Toy
Best price: $6.99
Kermit The Frog Photo Puppet ReplicaMaster Replicas; Master Replicas; Release date: 2007-08-06; Toy
Best price: $240.00
Before You Leap: A Frog's Eye View of Life's Greatest Lessonsby Kermit the Frog
Disney; Published: 2006-10-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.00
Price in other shops:
Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Lifeby Ed Jr Begley
Clarkson Potter; Published: 2008-02-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.63
Price in other shops:
The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Livingby Josh Dorfman
Stewart, Tabori & Chang; Published: 2007-05-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.00
Price in other shops:
Al Green - I'm Still in Love With YouRelease date: 2003-02-11; Music CD
Best price: $7.56
Price in other shops:
Keith Green - Keith Green: The Ministry Years 1977-1979Release date: 1999-03-09; Music CD
Best price: $13.79
Price in other shops:
Green Day - InsomniacRelease date: 1995-10-10; Published: 1995; Music CD
Best price: $3.94
Price in other shops:
Al Green - The Absolute BestRelease date: 2004-01-27; Music CD
Best price: $14.97
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
This is EnglandWELLSPRING/GENIUS; Release date: 2007-11-13; DVD
Best price: $13.67
Price in other shops:
Blow (Infinifilm Edition)DEPP,JOHNNY; Release date: 2001-09-11; DVD
Best price: $5.50
Price in other shops:
The Firm/ ElephantRyko Distribution; Release date: 2006-02-28; DVD
Best price: $10.99
Price in other shops:
Everything Is IlluminatedWarner Brothers; Release date: 2006-03-21; DVD
Best price: $12.86
Price in other shops:
Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)PITT,BRAD; Release date: 2000-06-06; DVD
Best price: $15.95
Price in other shops:
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Widescreen Edition)Release date: 2002-11-05; DVD
Best price: $8.09
Price in other shops:
American History XWarner Brothers; Release date: 1999-04-06; DVD
Best price: $5.98
Price in other shops:
Snatch (Widescreen Edition)Sony; Release date: 2003-06-03; DVD
Best price: $4.65
Price in other shops:
The Football FactoryRelease date: 2005-12-26; DVD
Best price: $9.51
Price in other shops:
Boondock Saints (Unrated Special Edition)TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2006-05-23; DVD
Best price: $11.03
Price in other shops: