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- 2025
- Tim Mielants
- 91 mins
- 15
Summary
A TV news crew is granted access to Stanton Wood reform school as head teacher Steve (Cillian Murphy), deputy Amanda (Tracey Ullman) and newest recruit Shola (Simbiatu Ajikawo) work tirelessly to offer hope and support to young men who have been abandoned by society and the system. These troubled souls include Andy (Douggie McMeekin), Ash (Joshua Barry), Jamie (Luke Ayres), Nabz (Ahmed Ismail), Tarone (Tut Nyuot) and Shy (Jay Lycurgo), who receives bad news from his mother that tips him over the edge. While Steve resorts to covert swigs of alcohol to carry him through a hellish day he will never forget, Shy spirals out of control, wreaking havoc in front of the TV crew
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
Terry Staunton
Cillian Murphy is at the top of his game as the titular head teacher of a residential reform school in this dark drama laced with judicious humour. Already self-medicating to manage emotional and mental difficulties in his private life, Steve's world falls further into a tailspin when he and his deputy (a terrific Tracey Ullman) learn the school has lost its funding and will close in six months, the bombshell dropped on a busy day that coincides with visits from the local MP (Roger Allam) and a TV news crew. It's an uncomfortable watch at times, but nonetheless responsible and intelligent film-making that shines a light on social and educational systemic failures. Director Tim Mielants and screenwriter Max Porter (adapting his own novella, Shy) make their points without ever lapsing into preachiness, and the former is to be applauded for coaxing superb performances out the young actors portraying the pupils, none more so than Jay Lycurgo as the troubled but clearly very bright Shy. A powerful story with equally heart-wrenching parallels in the real world.
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Cast
rolenameSteveCillian MurphyAmandaTracey UllmanShyJay LycurgoSholaLittle SimzJamieLuke AyresAshJoshua BarryHelenLeanne EverittCalArchie Fisher
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rolenameDirectorTim MielantsWriterMax PorterProducerAlan MoloneyProducerCillian MurphyComposerGeoff BarrowComposerBen SalisburyDirector of photographyRobrecht HeyvaertEditorDanielle PalmerCastingRobert SterneProduction designerPaki Smith
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Theatrical distributor
Netflix
Released on
2025-09-19
Languages
English
Guidance
Violence, swearing, sexual references, drug abuse
Formats
Colour
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