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ComédieAnnée2010Durée1h 29mIMDb6.4

Down Terrace

ComédieCrimeDrame

A crime family looks to unmask the police informant in their midst who threatens to take down their business.

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Casting

Ben Wheatley

Director

Robin Hill

Karl

RH

Robert Hill

Bill

Julia Deakin

Maggie

David Schaal

Eric

KP

Kerry Peacock

Valda

Tony Way

Garvey

MK

Mark Kempner

Berman

Michael Smiley

Pringle

Gareth Tunley

Jon

KP

Kali Peacock

Helen Garvey

KB

Kitty Blue

Child

LH

Luke Hartney

Spitz

SS

Simon Smith

Musician

PG

Paul George

Musician

SW

Simon Walker

Musician

JH

Janet Hill

Mrs Pringle

Sara Dee

Radio Reporter

Ben Wheatley

Writer

Robin Hill

Writer

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@Mrs A #30092017May 29, 2023

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Hama9a🤪🤪فكاهة😜Nov 22, 2022

Looking at the DVD cover of Down Terrace, you would be forgiven for dismissing it as yet another geezer-filled entry into the British crime genre, directed by somebody who watched Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) growing up and fancied themselves as capable of doing the same. Yet Ben Wheatley's debut feature goes out to do exactly the opposite, and instead of motor- mouthed crims with ridiculous nicknames and heists-gone-wrong, we get a kitchen-sink drama, at least for the first two-thirds, filmed almost entirely within the constraints of a run-of-the-mill house in Brighton. After a stint in prison, Karl (Robin Hill, who co-wrote the script with Wheatley) returns to the family home with his father Bill (Robert Hill, Robin's real-life father) to try and sniff out the rat who is threatening to bring down their criminal organisation. With the help of mother Mags (Julia Deakin), they invite various associates, including idiot club owner Garvey (Tony Way), muscle Eric (David Schaal) and hit-man Pringle (Michael Smiley), to their home in an attempt to suss them out. Karl is barely able to cope with the relentless criticism dished out by his father and his family's general dysfunction, and the atmosphere is made worse with the re-appearance of Valda (Kerry Peacock), an old flame now (apparently) pregnant with Karl's child. Channelling the work of various British film-makers, including Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Shane Meadows, Down Terrace attempts to draw you in slowly, creating an atmosphere of unease before unleashing its bloody final act. It should be a clever subversion of the genre, and in some ways it is, but this is hampered by a measured approach and a self-awareness, similar to the problems Sightseers (2012) had. There isn't a fault to be had with the performances, especially Robert Hill as the everyman crime boss with a slight aura of buffoonery about him. It's also very funny on occasion, and one of Wheatley's real strengths as a film-maker is luring you in with laughs while never allowing you to be completely comfortable. Ultimately, it's a distinctive test of endurance with flashes of brilliance, doing wonders with a micro-budget.

zainab.aleqabiNov 22, 2022

All of the 1% reviews on here are by Americans that just don't get it? this is classic British sink, no blinking explosions or any CGI. I find it disturbing that people actually come on to IMDb to rip into an excellent film, made with heart (and no budget) . If you want to be a faux critic at least learn the art of spelling and not bashing art for having 'so much dialogue, and not enough action' Ben Wheatley pulls his A game here. If you don't get it, fine. But there is no need to mark it down. /rant.

deemabayyaaNov 22, 2022

Set in a mundane suburban area of Kent, DOWN TERRACE is the blackest of black comedies involving a family headed by Bill (Robin Hill) who in collaboration with his son Karl (Robin Hill) tries to discover the identity of an informant who shopped them to the police and thereby confined them to prison. There are several suspects among their intimate group, notably Eric (David Schaal), Garvey (Tony Way), and Councillor Berman (Mark Garvey). Meanwhile Eric and his wife Maggie (Julia Deakin) object to Karl's continuing relationship with Valda (Kerry Peacock). Ably performed in semi-improvised style by a first-rate cast, Ben Wheatley's film emphasizes the culture of mistrust that permeates this so-called close network of criminals. Although professing loyalty to one another through frequent hugs and epithets ("You know I love you"), it's clear that no one really can rely on anyone else to be truthful either in their behavior or their responses to one another. This is a dog-eat-dog community in which only the fittest can survive. There are some gory moments in the film, but they are handled with such panache that we understand Wheatley"s purpose in including them - in a world where 'good' and 'evil' no longer exist, every behavioral move can be seen as absurd, even comic. Tautly filmed with an astute use of close-up, pans and two-shots in tight spaces, DOWN TERRACE is a low (or perhaps) no-budget piece of work that nonetheless confirms the director's mastery of cinematic form. Highly recommended.

HarlowNov 22, 2022

Complete waste of time. I fast forwarded at the end just to see the stupid end. Bloody, awful, meaningless piece of crap that the producers call a movie?? No wonder it has grossed $9000 only. It has no meaning, just a family killing people and their own. I don't believe I've wasted time on this sh*t. I've seen bad movies in the past, but this one tops them all. Complete waste of time. I fast forwarded at the end just to see the stupid end. Bloody, awful, meaningless piece of crap that the producers call a movie?? No wonder it has grossed $9000 only. It has no meaning, just a family killing people and their own. I don't believe I've wasted time on this sh*t. I've seen bad movies in the past, but this one tops them all.

cute sid 143Nov 22, 2022

After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the family business is on the rocks, and the crew of criminals who operate out of the house aren't feeling terribly trusting of one another. It might look like an ordinary house, but the walls are closing in... All directors had to start somewhere, and although there are flashes of genius that were to come, it all feels very amateur and a little hard to swallow. I was expecting some funny banter between the cast, and whilst it has it very now and again, its not enough to keep you from losing interest. The cast are good, and there are some funny moments, especially when Karl is looking for some letters, but the way its filmed just feels too claustrophobic, and if this was Wheatleys I tension, he's overdone it a little. Compared to the likes of Kill List, Sightseers, and A Field In England, its not good, but it has the Wheatley magic in there for you to enjoy the flashes of genius, but there are just too many flaws.

saint2020Nov 22, 2022

This film was billed as a comedy but I found it so darkly comic that I could almost take it as a straight-up drama. All the performances were excellent with both Robert and Robin Hill putting in stellar turns. A cross between a kitchen sink drama and a fly-on-the-wall documentary, I found the filming style made for a compelling watch. Unfortunately there were a couple of niggles. They are supposed to be drug dealers but we see no drug dealing going on. Also, the police were very conspicuous by their absence; not one policeman seen all the way through. You'd have thought the police would definitely be watching someone with their track record. Other than that I found it an interesting and compelling watch. Just a word for the squeamish though, Ben Wheatley does not hold back on the violence. There are a couple of quite graphic scenes in there that might have you wincing. SteelMonster's verdict: RECOMMENDED My score: 7.1/10. You can find an expanded version of this review on my blog: Thoughts of a SteelMonster.

🌹J E Y J E Y 🌹Nov 22, 2022

I'm writing this review of Down Terrace after watching the film and experiencing a severe case of dejavu at the same time. I hired it on the basis that I like gritty British gangster movies and I saw this one's trailer on another similar film. However, after about twenty minutes I got the distinct impression that I'd seen the film before, as I was predicting most of the scenes accurately. The reason for this was that I had seen it before. However, I had turned it off after about half an hour due to the fact that it was awful. Somehow I had erased the memory of this film and then hired it out again thinking it was a different one (and, once again, duped by the trailer). Now, I've looked on various movie-related websites and the reaction to Down Terrace is - overall - pretty positive. I don't know what it was about the film, but it just didn't do it for me. It's about a family of gangsters who, two of which have just returned from Court, and now believe that there's a 'mole' within the organisation. Perhaps one thing that majorly bugged me was that none of the - supposed - gangsters really seemed like gangsters. Maybe I'm just used to Guy Ritchie's stereotypes, but this lot came across as a load of fat, middle-aged men who you'd find propping up the bar at a Working Man's club. They weren't in the least bit threatening (as you might expect a hardened gangster to be). As for the 'black comedy' that was repeatedly mentioned in other reviews, I couldn't find any. I forced myself to sit through the whole thing this time, hoping to find out what I was apparently missing. I couldn't see it myself. Just because a film is low budget, does not make it particularly good. I'm now writing this review in the hope that when I next watch the trailer for Down Terrace by accident, I don't think to myself 'Ooh, that looks good, I think I'll watch it' and just remind myself that it's awful. I hate to be all 'overly commercial,' but I think I'll stick to Guy Ritchie's stylised representations of the London criminal underworld in future.

saruNov 22, 2022

The shocker wasn't the predictable ending but IMDb's page. "Comedy/Crime" it says. What comedy? There wasn't an iota of a funny moment in this. The movie was interesting throughout – barring the slow and muddled 10-15-minutes intro – but if this was intended as a comedy then it failed miserably. As a crime drama it's an 8/10, as a comedy it is a round zero. I enjoyed the various plot-twists, but who didn't realize that Karl's mental instability would lead to murder within the family? The movie's other problem is its lack of realism. A family this distrustful would have annihilated each other years ago, because we have to assume that Karl didn't become a manic-depressive trigger/hammer-happy psychopath overnight. The ease with which Maggie kills her own brother doesn't ring true either, even though it was a fun plot-twist. The ease with which Karl's PREGNANT girlfriend butchers Maggie rings even less true. Having one brutal female killer in a movie is acceptable, but having two is just stretching the credibility somewhat. Just because all these people are involved with the mob cannot make ALL of them criminally insane, not to this extent anyway. They kill each other off far too easily – within a very small time-frame - while displaying a lack of discipline and self-control that makes me wonder how the hell these people ever even got into organized crime (organized, meaning you don't just go and kill anybody you want off-hand) and how they managed to last longer than an hour. Key word: "organized". If the British mob were this anarchic, it wouldn't exist; it's that simple. Fact is, it's not just the family that is kill-happy, but everyone else also. I was half-expecting a milkman to appear out of nowhere and to start swinging knives and axes around. Again, I refuse to forgive the film on account of it being allegedly a comedy – because it clearly isn't one. (God help DT's writers if they thought they were writing one!) I suppose a lot of the interesting twists came at the expense of logic and credibility, both of these being sacrificed in order to advance the story's interest potential. Even if it were a comedy, it's not a comedy in the ZAZ or even Guy Ritchie vein, hence a certain degree of realism has to be expected. A word of advice to the director and writers: the only way a black comedy can work – i.e. be funny as opposed to just interesting – is to turn it into a stylized, large-than-life venture, not a kitchen-sink ordeal. The kitchen-sink approach works only for drama, never for a comedy within a serious context i.e. a serious subject matter. You can't make a bunch of bonafide psychopaths funny and amusing if you film them with a wobbly camcorder, getting the viewer too close to the reality of their dark existence, warts, kitchen-sinks and all. Plus, you need actors with comedic abilities, and those aren't easy to come by. "British Sopranos" my butt. Watch this as a psychological crime drama and you will get something out of it. Watch it as a comedy and you will be extremely disappointed.

faizaNov 22, 2022

Down Terrace tries to grip you by pulling at the strings of your most visceral instincts, but i'm afraid this is not a good thing. Two chumps ...erm, two hardened gangsters who apparently don't have a penny to their name, go back home after being released from prison. Suspicious of everyone, they start killing each other in large numbers. Then some more side characters from secondary plot lines also kill each other. Aaaand that's about it. The film in itself is not bad, but i'm not sure who the audience is supposed to be; none of the characters are memorable, or even appealing, in any way. It tries to show "realism" and while it partially succeeds (there are in fact such lowlifes in Britain), it not only overdoes the killing with multiple murders which would certainly bring down the popo in a rush, but the most "dramatic" point is that we're supposed to feel for these people. I simply don't like films whose plot revolves around characters who are irredeemable, but you might feel differently. I see no reason why this story should be told, they are garbage people doing what garbage people do, there is no moral, no socio-historic significance (such as Beast Of No Nation might have), no comedy whatsoever (despite what IMDb says), no action. This is not The Godfather, or even The Sopranos. If you want to watch ignorant, miserable people being ignorant and miserable, this film is for you; for everyone else, 5/10 - no redeeming qualities.

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