Sweet Sixteen

This is a movie for anyone who thinks that kids who grow up to be drug addicts and drug users have only themselves to blame. What's particularly disturbing is how the biggest antagonists for Liam, and his friend Pinball are not people their own age, but rather adults. Some scenes are very unnerving and hard to watch simply because the hazing and degradation that the fifteen-year-old characters endure is at the hands of people who behave like insecure playground bullies, but are members of a powerful organized crime force.

Even though I'm pretty close to the age of the main character, I can barely imagine what the nightmarish experiences he endures must be like. The movie is emotionally devastating nearly all the way though. It's moments of levity are welcome, but few. There's points where it seems as though everything will turn out alright, but then something else happens that throws everything off-course.

For a relaxing and enjoyable time, this is not a movie to see. But if you're looking for something that will move you, shock you and really make you think and appreciate your own situation than Sweet Sixteen is the one too see.

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It's a Free World Bread and Roses The Angels' Share Looking for Eric Land and Freedom Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Tony's gang George McNeilage Tony's gang Rikki Traynor Tony's gang Jon Morrison Edit Storyline Liam is a young, restless teen struggling to realize his dream in the gritty and dismal streets of Greenock, where unemployment is rampant and little hope is available to the city's youth. It's you and Liam, against the world. Edit Details Official Sites: They drive up through the Cloch caravan trailer park where Liam sees a caravan for sale in a spot overlooking the scenic Firth of Clyde.

Liam, who loves his mother very much, fantasizes that he, his sister, and his mother can escape to the seaside and live in the caravan, away from Stan and Rab's wrath. To purchase it he and Pinball steal a delivery of drugs from Stan's house and sell them, doing the very things Liam once hated — claiming that they will never get anywhere by selling cheap cigarettes. They soon develop 'entrepreneur skills' and raise several thousand pounds, which they pay as a deposit towards the caravan in Liam's mother's name.

Liam's efforts attract the attention of the local drug 'godfather', Tony Douglas. Liam, who only wanted a peaceful life with his mother, agrees to work with them after the local godfather tells him to 'stay away from our shops'.

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Pinball, meanwhile, is thrown into the health club showers due to his disrespectful manner towards the dealer, and vows revenge. Liam and Pinball carry on selling drugs to the local area, with the help of Liam's other friends who deliver pizzas. Liam and Pinball meet again with members of the drug godfather's gang, and Liam joins them in their car.

Pinball is kicked out, angering him further; the gang members advise Liam to 'dump' Pinball for good. They take Liam to a Glasgow nightclub and instruct him that he has to kill someone to join the gang.

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Liam attempts to do so, but is stopped by the gang, who inform him it was a test which he has passed. Liam, Chantelle, Calum and Suzanne Chantelle's friend drive to the caravan to have a picnic, only to discover that it has been burned down. Liam believes it was Stan who did it, and throws a rock through his window. That evening, Pinball turns up in Douglas's stolen car, telling Liam that he wants revenge.

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He proceeds to crash the car into the health club. Liam speaks to the godfather in the morning and, to his chagrin, is ordered to "take care of" the Pinball problem i. The next morning, Pinball - aware of Liam's intentions - first tries to stab Liam, then proudly tells him that he's the one who burnt down the caravan, not Stan. He then cuts his own face in rage.

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Liam is seen reassuring his injured friend after phoning for an ambulance, but in the next scene he notifies the godfather that the deed has "been done", leaving a viewer to infer that he has indeed murdered his friend. Douglas promises to buy Liam an upscale apartment, and on the day before his birthday Liam's mother is released from the prison and taken to this new house on the coast of Gourock where she is welcomed with a party.

She appears uneasy, and the next morning is found to have escaped to Stan's house.

Liam blames this on Chantelle. Chantelle, now fully aware that Liam is dealing drugs, attempts to warn her little brother about their mother probably not being so thankful for Liam's efforts because she is too devoted to Stan, but this only provokes Liam even further. An enraged Liam goes to Stan's house, trying to convince his mother to go back to their new home, only to receive insults from Stan.

In a struggle, Liam stabs Stan. Liam is then seen walking alone on the stony beach. He is phoned by Chantelle, who reminds him that the day is his 16th birthday. She also tells him that the police have been looking for him, but that after everything that he has done, Chantelle still loves him. He walks towards the sea. Use of the word " fuck " times and " cunt " about 20 times led the British Board of Film Classification to forbid the film to viewers under Spain followed this decision, but other countries, like France or Germany not under 12 had a different rating system.

Laverty asserted that this was "censorship" and "class prejudice" because he got a lot of information to write his scenario from people around Scotland, many of whom were not 18, and were therefore denied the opportunity to see the film. Screenings in Inverclyde, Martin Compston's birthplace, where the film was shot, were shown under a 15 certificate.