Schau mir in die Augen, Kleiner (2007)

Actors: Gilbert Melki (actor), Stephen Frears (actor), Heath Ledger (actor), Jake Gyllenhaal (actor), Thom Hoffman (actor), Jeroen Krabbé (actor), Derek Jarman (actor), Steve Buscemi (actor), Jean-Marc Barr (actor), Daniel Day-Lewis (actor), Q. Allan Brocka (actor), Rupert Everett (actor), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (actor), Kurt Raab (actor), Jürgen Prochnow (actor),

Genres: Documentary, History,

Beautiful Thing (1996)

Actors: John Altman (composer), Anya Noakes (miscellaneous crew), John Benfield (actor), Meera Syal (actress), Susanna Lenton (miscellaneous crew), Tony Garnett (producer), Ben Daniels (actor), Anna Karen (actress), Garry Cooper (actor), Don Fairservice (editor), Jonathan Harvey (actor), Jonathan Harvey (writer), Jonathan Harvey (writer), Sophie Stanton (actress), Marlene Sidaway (actress),

Plot: A tender love story set during a hot summer on a South-East London housing estate. Jamie, a relatively unpopular lad who bunks off school to avoid football, lives next door to Ste, a more popular athletic lad but who is frequently beaten up by his father and older brother. Such an episode of violence brings Jamie and Ste together: Sandra (Jamie's mum) offers refugee to Ste, who has to 'top-and-tail' with Jamie. Hence, the story tells of their growing attraction for one another, from initial lingering glances to their irrefutable love, which so magnificently illustrated at the end of the film. In deals with the tribulations of coming to terms with their sexuality and of others finding out, in light of Sandra's unwavering loyalty and defence of Jamie and the fear of repercussion should Ste's family find out. The plot is set against sub-texts of Sandra's desire to manage her own pub, and thus escape the estate, and of her new relationship with her hippy boyfriend Tony; and of Leah, the brassy girl next door who has been expelled from school and spends her time listening to Mama Cass records and tripping on a variety of drugs.

Keywords: 1990s, abuse, african-anglo, alcoholic, apartment, balcony, bar, bare-butt, based-on-play, beating
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: An urban fairytale.

Quotes:

Sandra: It's for his bird.::Tony: Do you have to use words like that? It really disempowers you.

Sandra: Where are you going?::Jamie: Out with my mates.::Sandra: Jamie... you ain't got any mates.

Sandra: It's not natural, is it?::Jamie: What ain't?::Sandra: A girl her age being into Mama Cass.::Leah: She's got a really beautiful voice.::Sandra: And what's wrong with Madonna?::Leah: She's a slag.::Sandra: Hypocrite.

Jamie: Scared of being called "queer"?::Ste: Are you?::Jamie: Maybe... maybe not.::Ste: And are ya?::Jamie: Queer?::Ste: Gay.::Jamie: Very happy. I'm happy when I'm with you...

Sandra: What happened? School burned down, did it?::Jamie: Yeah.::Sandra: What was it this time? IRA bomb?::Jamie: Fundamentalist Muslim pyromaniacs.::Sandra: Oh, funny, that. Looked all right when I walked past it.

Ste: There ain't nowhere else.::Sandra: There is, actually, Ste. There's an island in the Mediterranean called Lesbian, and all its inhabitants are dykes. So you've got your eye wiped there.

Ste: You always wear glasses when you read?::Jamie: Supposed to.::Ste: But you don't at school.::Jamie: It's hardly fetching, is it?::Ste: Nah, looks all right.::Jamie: Really?::Ste: I'm tellin' ya.::Jamie: Cheers.

Miss Chauhan: Right, now, this is Mr. Bennett and he's gonna be taking the boys for football. Mr. Bennett foolishly wants to be a teacher.::[McBride and the other boys are talking quietly, but including the word "fucking" several times, making Miss Chauhan's comments about Mr. Bennett barely audible. Jamie then looks across to McBride]::Ryan McBride: What you fucking looking at?::Miss Chauhan: Er, less fucking and more attention please.::[She looks across to Gina, who is obviously pregnant]::Miss Chauhan: Something you might have said to your boyfriend, that, Gina.

Ste: Do you think I'm queer?::Jamie Gangel: It don't matter what I think.

Leah Russell: I wish I was the one that was going away. Nothing ever happens around here. I gets up in the morning, bake my face in half a ton of slap, tong my hair with yesterday's lacquer, that's it. It's the same every bleeding day. There's fuck-all to look forward to.