About this episode

The team reviews the 2006 film 'This Is England' and discusses its themes and the director's background.

On this episode of Bad Dads Film Review, the team reviews This Is England (2006), Shane Meadows’ raw, semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama starring Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Vicky McClure, Joe Gilgun, Andrew Shim, Rosamund Hanson, and Jack O’Connell. In this episode Recording outside the man cave in brutal heat, with England playing later and possible background birdsReturning to Shane Meadows after the dads’ love for Dead Man’s ShoesMeadows writing from lived experience and Shaun...

People in this episode

Host: Bad Dads

Topics covered

• film review
• coming-of-age
• Shane Meadows
• This Is England
• British cinema

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: This Is England, Dead Man’s Shoes

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