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  • 2008
  • R
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary From the moment the film begins, the chase is on. London, 3:07am: Kelly, whose eye is badly beaten, and Joanne momentarily hide out in a public restroom waiting for the next train to Brighton. How these two girls met and why they are running for their lives is told in a series of flashbacks as they make their way to what they hope is a s...

Directed By: Paul Andrew Williams

Written By: Paul Andrew Williams

  • 2008
  • R
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m

London to Brighton

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary From the moment the film begins, the chase is on. London, 3:07am: Kelly, whose eye is badly beaten, and Joanne momentarily hide out in a public restroom waiting for the next train to Brighton. How these two girls met and why they are running for their lives is told in a series of flashbacks as they make their way to what they hope is a s...

Directed By: Paul Andrew Williams

Written By: Paul Andrew Williams

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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57% Mixed
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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75
Character-driven thriller, which plays out against a backdrop of desperation, self-loathing and grinding poverty.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
75
Very good but very grim, Paul Andrew Williams' punishing debut doesn't pull many punches - although the characters certainly field their share of body blows.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
63
A chilling pulp movie told with a pavement-eye view of the dregs of humanity.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
58
Writer-director Paul Andrew Williams' unnecessarily hectic debut feature won several British film festival awards, no doubt for its bounty of low-budget stylized violence and blood, as well as its thing for prostitutes and runaways.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
50
A slice of social realism, a wedge of naturalism, a symbolically freighted fairy tale -- at times, London to Brighton feels like all of these combined, which, before it all turns to mush, gives the film the aspect of a fascinating and ambitious pastiche. There’s something provocative about Mr. Williams’s attempt to join together so many conflicting, contradictory influences, even if in the end they manage only to cancel one another out.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
50
Does what it does well but too often seems a pointless exercise in British miserabilism crossed with a nasty gangster yarn.
By Derek Elley FULL REVIEW
40
LTB offers a fresh (if grimy) contribution to kitchen-sink realism, but little to the tiresome persistence of vicious British gangster chic.
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Production Company UK Film Council, Steel Mill Pictures, Wellington Films, LTB Films Limited
Release Date Feb 8, 2008
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating R
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Tagline Innocence has nowhere to hide
Website http://www.facebook.com/LondontoBrighton
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Awards

British Independent Film Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
London Critics Circle Film Awards
• 3 Nominations
Raindance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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