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24 7: Twenty Four Seven (1997)
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Original name: TwentyFourSeven
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.
Style:
bleak, realistic, gloomy, fairy tale, psychological, light, atmospheric, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
boxing, sport, gangsters, gang, violence, friendship, poverty, working class, nude, catastrophe, teenager, children, macabre, depression, bullying, justice, kids and family, fascism, destiny, brutality, subculture, corruption, runaway, happy ending, mental illness ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century
Place:
england, new jersey, europe, wales, cornwall
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Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
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A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he ...
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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48%
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Duration: 109 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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