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Posted: September 4th, 2009.
Based on the novel by Kevin Sampson
A sure-fire cult classic – Dazed & Confused
A gritty, stylish adaptation of a seminal novel – Esquire
Awaydays has been described as unflinchingly savage, but I think its poetic and transcendental, too. Its beautiful, mean, exhilarating, evil and innocent. Its set in the past, but its all about now. Its about the wild, the beautiful and the damned a hymn to the last rites of youth. Above all, its a film about young hearts bursting free and running amok. Awaydays is a film about you. Kevin Sampson
When Carty meets Elvis at a Bunnymen gig, they fall headlong into a volatile friendship that each of them aches for but neither can control. Violent, sexy and funny, AWAYDAYS is a blade-sharp rites-of-passage that buzzes with the post-punk energy of its late-70s Liverpool setting. Based on the classic novel by Kevin Sampson, and pulsating to a soundtrack of Joy Division, The Cure, Magazine, Echo & The Bunnymen and Ultravox, AWAYDAYS examines identity, fate, the nature of male longings and their need to belong. It is the first major feature film to be set during, and evocatively portray, the first dawning of the football casual fashion cult.
Extras: Imagining Awaydays: On Location with writer Kevin Sampson and Producer David A Hughes / On The Bench: Interviews with Director Pat Holden and lead actors Nicky Bell and Liam Boyle / The Birth of the Casuals / Auditions
The DVD is released on September 28th, it runs for 105 mins and retails for £17.99 on DVD,but is currently on Amazon at the link above for £9.98.A Blu-ray version is also available on Amazon at the link above for £12.98.
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