Boston Kickout DVD

In the early '80s Phil's father moves the family from an inner city slum to build a bright new life in Stevenage. But it's now the '90s and the dream has crumbled. After leaving school, Phil (John Simm - Human Traffic) finds himself in the bewildering world of unemployment, violence, alcoholism and drug abuse.

His best friend Ted (Andrew Lincoln - TV's Teachers) disappears, Steven (Richard Hanson) tries to conform to his parents' expectations, and Matt (Nathan Valente) becomes engaged. Feeling alienated from his friends and dissatisfied with his existence, Phil becomes involved with Steven's brother Robert (Marc Warren - TV's Hustle), a dangerously incompetent villain who is ever planning the "big job".

Now trapped between two worlds - the criminal and the banal, it is the arrival of his vibrant and liberated cousin Shona (Emer McCourt) that acts as the catalyst for Phil to expand his horizons. But on his horizon lies momentous decisions that will transform his world.

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