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A wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism.Green Street was released i...
Nov 13, 2006 · Green Street Hooligans is a film about the violent underworld of football hooliganism in London, starring Elijah Wood as a Harvard drop-out who joins a firm of hooligans. Watch the trailer and see ...
Green Street Hooligans: Directed by Lexi Alexander. With Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani, Marc Warren. A wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism.
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Synopsis. After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of British football hooliganism. Matt learns to stand his ground through a friendship that ...
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Matt Buckner, an American college student studying journalism, is expelled from Harvard University after cocaine is discovered in his room. Though it belongs to his roommate Jeremy, Matt is afraid to speak up because Jeremy comes from a powerful family and is offered $10,000 for taking the blame. Matt reluctantly accepts the money and uses it to vi...
Elijah Wood as Matthew 'Matt' Buckner, nicknamed "The Yank": a 20-year-old American everyman, studying journalism at Harvard University. His mother has died, and his sister lives in London with her...The name of the firm in the film, the Green Street Elite, refers to Green Street in the London Borough of Newham, where West Ham's old home stadium, Upton Park was located. West Ham is supported by one of Britain's notorious hooligan firms: the Inter City Firm(ICF).
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Green Street has an approval rating of 46% based on 65 reviews, with an average of 5.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "When it comes to the subculture of soccer thugs, Green Street Hooligans lacks sufficient insight, and instead comes off as a Fight Club knock-off." On Metacritic, the film h...
Green Street won several awards including Best Feature at the LA Femme Film Festival, Best of the Fest at the Malibu Film Festival, and the Special Jury Award and Audience Award at the SXSW Film Festival. The film was nominated for the William Shatner Golden Groundhog Award for Best Underground Movie. Other nominated films were Neil Gaiman's and Da...
Green Street 2: Stand Your Ground was released straight-to-DVD in March 2009. The film does not star most of the main cast of the first film but rather focuses on Ross McCall, who played Dave in the first film. The plot has Dave, who was caught at the fight at the end of the first film, in a prison where he must fight to survive. Green Street 3: Ne...
Green Street at IMDbGreen Street at Box Office MojoGreen Street Hooligans. Elijah Wood stars as an expelled Harvard student who moves to London and finds himself embraced and disturbed by the dominant violence of English soccer culture. IMDb 7.4 1 h 44 min 2005. 18+. Drama · Sports · Military and War · Malicious. This video is currently unavailable.
Sep 8, 2005 · Directed by. Lexi Alexander. "West Ham is mediocre. But their firm is first-rate." So a young American is told soon after arriving in London. West Ham is a London football team. "Firms" are the names for organized gangs of supporters who plan and provoke fights with the firms of opposing teams. The firms are quasi-military, the level of ...
