Storm Damage
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| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Lennie James |
| Directed by | Simon Cellan Jones |
| Starring |
Adrian Lester Mona Hammond Kate Ashfield |
| Theme music composer | Chris Whitten |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Ian Madden |
| Cinematography | Nicholas D. Knowland |
| Editor(s) | Kristina Hetherington |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Production company(s) | BBC Films |
| Distributor | BBC |
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| Original network | BBC Two |
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Storm Damage is a 2000 British television drama film directed by Simon Cellan Jones, written by Lennie James, and stars Adrian Lester, Mona Hammond and Kate Ashfield. The film is about a young teacher who returns to the children's care home where he grew up, and becomes involved with the lives of the troubled teenage children. It was broadcast by BBC Two on 23 January 2000.
Danny (Adrian Lester) is an English teacher in a South London comprehensive. When three youths break into his class and threaten one of his pupils, Patrick "Shinehead" (Alexis Rodney), Danny intervenes and is himself threatened with a knife before the youths leave. A shaken Danny confronts Patrick and demands that he tells him the name of the ringleader.
Danny discovers that the 16-year-old boy, Stefan Ortiz (Ashley Walters), lives at the care home known as Number 66, where he himself spent much of his youth. He visits the home and is welcomed by his former foster mother Agnes Miller (Mona Hammond), who runs the home. He confronts Stefan and is shocked and infuriated by the boy's unruly and hostile attitude.
Danny becomes increasingly obsessed with Stefan and visits the home frequently. Eventually, he resigns his teaching job and takes a job at the home, but his hot-headed and sometimes confrontational approach does not go down well with some of Number 66's troubled children, particularly Stefan. At the same time, Danny begins an affair with Kay (Kate Ashfield), another worker at the home.
Meanwhile, Stefan has fallen under the control of Steven Bonaface (Lennie James), a local gangster, and is being drawn deeper into a life of petty crime. On Christmas Day Stefan burgles his mother's house.
At a New Year's Eve party, one of the girls at Number 66, Annalise (Ashley Madekwe), overdoses on solvents. Her friend, Melody (Nicole Charles), is persuaded to leave Annalise by her boyfriend Shinehead, and Annalise subsequently dies in hospital. Later, Stefan blames Shinehead and vows revenge.
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