Green Street Hooligans
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| Directed by | Lexi Alexander |
| Produced by | Donald Zuckerman Deborah Del Prete |
| Screenplay by |
Lexi Alexander Dougie Brimson Josh Shelov |
| Story by | Lexi Alexander Dougie Brimson |
| Starring |
Elijah Wood Charlie Hunnam Claire Forlani Leo Gregory |
| Narrated by | Sam Gibson |
| Music by | Christopher Franke |
| Cinematography | Alexander Buono |
| Edited by | Paul Trejo |
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Universal Pictures (UK) Freestyle Releasing (US) |
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109 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $346,830 |
| Box office | $3,154,346 (Worldwide) |
Green Street is a 2005 British-American independent drama film about football hooliganism in the United Kingdom. It was directed by Lexi Alexander and stars Elijah Wood and Charlie Hunnam. In the film, an American college student falls in with a violent West Ham football firm (the Green Street Elite) run by his brother-in-law's younger brother and is morally transformed by their commitment to each other.
Two sequels followed in the form of direct-to-video releases. The first called Green Street 2: Stand Your Ground was released on various dates throughout the world from March 2009 to July 2010 while and the second called Green Street 3: Never Back Down was released in the UK on 21 October 2013.
Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood), a journalism major, is expelled from Harvard University after cocaine is discovered in his room. However, the cocaine belongs to Jeremy Van Holden (Terence Jay), his roommate. Buckner is afraid to speak up because the Van Holdens are a powerful family, and Jeremy offers him $10,000 for taking the fall. Matt doesn't initially accept the money, but reconsiders and uses the money to visit his sister Shannon (Claire Forlani), her husband Steve Dunham (Marc Warren) and their young son, Ben (James Allison) living in London. There, Matt meets Steve's brother, Pete (Charlie Hunnam), an acerbic and imposing Cockney who leads the local football hooligan firm – Green Street Elite (GSE): a group of football supporters that arranges fights after matches – and teaches at a local school. Steve asks Pete to take Matt to a football match between West Ham United and Birmingham City, though Pete is reluctant to take a "Yank" to a football match, because of the xenophobic attitude of his friends. He is persuaded because Steve will only give the money Pete needs to Matt. When Pete changes his mind and demands the money from Matt a minor scuffle between the two ensues, where Pete quickly gets the upper hand and subsequently decides to take Matt to the football match, thinking he might learn something.
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