Summers Town

SOMERS TOWN

Shane Meadows
UK, 2007, 71’

WEBSITE
http://www.somers-town.com/

AWARDS and FESTIVALS
Generation Berlin Film Festival, 2008
Best Actor Tribeca Film Festival, New York, 2008
Minneapolis, Saint- Paul International Film Festival, 2009

PRESS QUOTE
²It is not hard to see why Shane Meadows dubs his latest film Somers Town, ‘a fantastic accident’. It started out as a short film with corporate backing. Now, after evolving into a 75-minute feature, it’s being hailed as the best British film this year² ~ James Mottram, The Times

SYNOPSIS
Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello), a Polish immigrant, lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and Euston stations, where his hard-drinking dad is working on a new rail link. Unknown to his father, Marek agrees to let penniless, homeless Tomo move into his room and the pair forms a strong bond, as they work odd jobs for an eccentric neighbor and compete for the attention of Maria, a beautiful young French waitress whom they are both infatuated with. But it's only a matter of time before Marek's dad discovers what's going on . . .