Attack the Block
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| Directed by | Joe Cornish |
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| Written by | Joe Cornish |
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| Cinematography | Tom Townend |
| Edited by | Jonathan Amos |
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| Distributed by | Screen Gems |
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88 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £8 million ($13 million) |
| Box office | £4.1 million ($5.8 million) |
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| Released | May 16, 2011 | ||||
| Genre | Electronica | ||||
| Length | 50:57 | ||||
| Label | Decca | ||||
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Attack the Block is a 2011 British science fiction horror comedy film written and directed by Joe Cornish and starring Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Nick Frost and Luke Treadaway. It is notable for being the film debut for both Cornish, Boyega, and future Academy Award-winning composer Steven Price.
The film centres on a teenage street gang who have to defend themselves from predatory alien invaders on a council estate in South London on Guy Fawkes Night. Released on 11 May 2011, it achieved significant popularity, favourable critical reviews, and accolades internationally. Attack The Block has been listed as a cult film in the making by a significant number of websites.
Walking home on Bonfire Night through a housing estate in South London, Samantha Adams (Jodie Whittaker), a 25-year-old trainee nurse, is mugged by a small gang of teenage hoodlums: Pest (Alex Esmail), Dennis (Franz Drameh), Jerome (Leeon Jones), Biggz (Simon Howard), and leader Moses (John Boyega). The attack is interrupted when a meteorite falls from the sky into a nearby car, giving Samantha the chance to escape. As Moses searches the wreck of the car for valuables, his face is scratched by a pale, hairless, eyeless dog-sized creature; the object which fell from the sky was its cocoon. The creature runs away, but the gang chase and kill it. Hoping to gain fame and fortune, they take the corpse to their acquaintance, cannabis dealer Ron (Nick Frost), to get advice on what to do. He lives at the top of their tower block, Wyndham Tower.
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