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Down Terrace

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United Kingdom · 2009
Rated R · 1h 29m
Director Ben Wheatley
Starring Robert Hill, Robin Hill, Julia Deakin, David Schaal
Genre Action, Comedy, Drama

Bill and his son, Karl work together in the oldest of family businesses -- organized crime. When they return home from prison, they realize there’s a rat in the mix. As they try to pick out the informant, Karl learns his girlfriend is pregnant and deals with his wife's anger, as well as his parents' disapproval.

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80

Time Out by David Fear

This muted mobster story reminds us that the ties that bind can also gag you, garrote you and slowly deaden your soul.

75

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

It's full of funny stuff, from a hitman forced to drag along his 3-year-old when he can't get a sitter, to one of the goons being asked, "Do you have a Web presence?"

70

Village Voice by Melissa Anderson

Down Terrace has frequently been appreciated as "The Sopranos meets Mike Leigh." But a more fruitful comparison might be to last year's stand-out British satire "In the Loop": In both films, verbal aggression makes for the biggest laughs and the surest signs of moral decay.

70

Variety by Ronnie Scheib

Cleverly channeling gangster tropes through a British kitchen-sink soap opera, TV scribe-helmer Ben Wheatley has concocted a nifty black comedy, with a little help from his friends, in Down Terrace.

50

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

However persuasively acted, this mélange of cinéma vérité, slapstick and murder - whose story has a lot in common with the recent Australian gangster film "Animal Kingdom" - has too many narrative gaps for its pieces to cohere satisfactorily.

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