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This is England

This Is England
This is england film poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Shane Meadows
Produced by Mark Herbert
Written by Shane Meadows
Paddy Considine (uncredited)
Starring Thomas Turgoose
Stephen Graham
Jo Hartley
Andrew Shim
Vicky McClure
Joseph Gilgun
Rosamund Hanson
Music by Ludovico Einaudi
Cinematography Danny Cohen
Edited by Chris Wyatt
Production
company
Distributed by Optimum Releasing
Release date
  • 12 September 2006 (2006-09-12) (TIFF)
  • 27 April 2007 (2007-04-27) (United Kingdom)
Running time
102 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget £1.5 million
Box office £5 million
This Is England Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released 23 April 2007
Genre Rock, ska, Britpop, reggae, jazz rock
Label Commercial Marketing
Shane Meadows film soundtracks chronology
Dead Man's Shoes
(2004)
This Is England
(2006)
Somers Town
(2008)

This Is England is a 2006 British drama film written and directed by Shane Meadows. The story centres on young skinheads in England in 1983. The film illustrates how their subculture, which has its roots in 1960s West Indies culture, especially ska, soul, and reggae music, became adopted by the far-right, especially white nationalists and white supremacists, which led to divisions within the skinhead scene. The film's title is a direct reference to a scene where the character Combo explains his nationalist views using the phrase "this is England" during his speech.

In 1983, 12-year-old Shaun gets into a fight at school with a boy named Harvey after he makes an offensive joke about his father, who died in the Falklands War. On his way home, Shaun comes across a gang of young skinheads led by Woody, who feels sympathy for Shaun and invites him to join the group. They accept Shaun as a member, and he finds a big brother in Woody, while developing a romance with Michelle, also known as Smell, an older girl who dresses in a new wave style.

Combo, an older skinhead, returns to the group after a prison sentence, accompanied by a knife-wielding moustachioed man called Banjo. A charismatic but unstable individual with sociopathic tendencies, Combo expresses English nationalist and racist views, and attempts to enforce his leadership over the other skinheads. This leads the group to split, with young Shaun, the belligerent Pukey, and Gadget, who feels bullied by Woody for his weight, choosing Combo over Woody's apolitical gang.

Shaun finds a mentor figure in Combo, who in turn is impressed by and identifies with Shaun. Shaun goes with Combo's group to a white nationalist meeting. After Pukey expresses doubt over their racist and nationalistic politics, Combo throws him out of his group and sends him back to Woody. The gang then engages in bigoted antagonism of, among others, shopkeeper Mr. Sandhu, an Indian shopkeeper who had previously banned Shaun from his shop.


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