Main content | Search | Section navigation menu | Site-wide navigation menu

Main menu

 
 
 

Aro Favourite Firm, The

 

UK 1989, 67 minutes
Dir. Alan Clarke
Rating: [R18]
Genres: Cult, Drama

Topics: Sport.

 

Aroview: Another of dir. Clarke’s essential forays into the vicious subcultures of Britain, here a ‘firm’ of football hooligans led by real estate agent Gary Oldman.

Subverting the media stereotypes of hooligans as ‘underclass scum’, this portrays them as a mixture of affluent types, for whom violence is a necessary hobby, and approval-seeking youngsters, there to boost numbers and poke fun at. As a vendetta with a rival ‘firm’ escalates, this seizes onto the nature of the obsession and the mob dynamics which fuel it, distinguished by Clarke’s knack for creating sympathy where none should exist.

Have your say  Reviewing Films

 

Close Relatives

Firm, The cover
Rental
DVD (R0) $6 Rent

Prices in $NZD (incl. GST)

Your basket is empty