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Dom Robinson reviews

Small Time Obsession

Distributed by
Guerilla Films

Everyone has an obsession and with over 500 DVD reviews online at the time of writing it's not hard to work out what mine is.

Lifelong friends Chris (Casualty's Jason Merrells) and Michael (Alex King) have theirs as well. For Chris it's stealing and the use of violence in order to get what he wants by whatever means necessary. For Michael it's greyhound racing, although as time goes by it's slowly changing over to Chris' girlfriend Ali (Juliette Caton), thus putting Jackie's (Kirsten Parker) nose out of joint as she harbours a desire for him. As the trouble escalates, it's not only Chris that Michael's beginning to piss off but also the local "Mr Big", Mr Page (Andrew Tiernan).

The plot of rivalry between friends is a well-worn one and there are many predictable moments, the only point of difference here seems to be that it's set amongst London's Polish community, something which was much-highlighted in the film's promotion, but it's a little lost on me because I cannot identify with it. However, the cast on show, in particular the two male leads, make this a fairly entertaining watch and it's certainly worth a rental to try before you buy.

The film is presented in a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen ratio which looks superb almost all of the time, with only the occasional artifacts noticeable in some scenes. The average bitrate is middle-of-the-road 4.81Mb/s, briefly peaking over 8Mb/s.

The sound is in Dolby Digital 2.0 (Dolby Surround) and there's nothing in particular on the soundtrack that'll give your speakers a major workout, but Martin Bell's memorable score is subtly worked into the atmosphere created within the film and it's certainly a far cry from his work with The Wonderstuff.

The 'moving' extras are a 2-minute Trailer in anamorphic widescreen and a fullscreen 14-minute look behind the scenes, Behind the Obsession with cast and crew interviews - mainly from director Piotr Szkopiak, executive producer David Nicholas Wilkinson and actor Alex King - and concentrating on how the film came to be made.

This is followed with pages of text of Cast and Crew Biographies, Production Notes, a list of the Locations in the film for those who want to go sight-seeing, a study of The Polish Community and how it's important to the film, plus a selection of Reviews from various trade publications around the time of the film's London cinema release in June 2000.

There are 23 chapters to spread the film out, which is fine, but no English subtitles to accompany the English dialogue, just English translations when Polish is spoken. The main menu features a shot of the front cover with music from the wonderful score playing in the background.

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2001.

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