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London to Brighton

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United Kingdom · 2006
Rated R · 1h 25m
Director Paul Andrew Williams
Starring Georgia Groome, Johnny Harris, Sam Spruell, Lorraine Stanley
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller

Kelly, a prostitute, is sent by her pimp, Derek, to find a young girl for aging gangster Duncan. She brings back 11-year-old Joanne. But when sex between Duncan and Joanne turns violent, the two girls must evade a vengeful Derek and flee to Brighton.

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Village Voice by

LTB offers a fresh (if grimy) contribution to kitchen-sink realism, but little to the tiresome persistence of vicious British gangster chic.

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Variety by Derek Elley

Does what it does well but too often seems a pointless exercise in British miserabilism crossed with a nasty gangster yarn.

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Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Writer-director Paul Andrew Williams' unnecessarily hectic debut feature won several British film festival awards, no doubt for its bounty of low-budget stylized violence and blood, as well as its thing for prostitutes and runaways.

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The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

A slice of social realism, a wedge of naturalism, a symbolically freighted fairy tale -- at times, London to Brighton feels like all of these combined, which, before it all turns to mush, gives the film the aspect of a fascinating and ambitious pastiche. There’s something provocative about Mr. Williams’s attempt to join together so many conflicting, contradictory influences, even if in the end they manage only to cancel one another out.

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