Ill Manors (2012) on Netflix
Over seven days in Forest Gate, London, Aaron, Ed, Katya and Michelle fight for respect. Six inter-linking stories cover drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.
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- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb7.1/1011,680 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes77%
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Plot summary
Eight main characters live in Forest Gate, London, and over seven days their separate stories cross as they fight for respect. Four of them deal drugs, one is a user, and two sell sex, and violence runs through their struggle to survive on the streets. Six inter-linking strands make up the week, and each one is represented by a different rap song written for the film. The songs together act as its narration. The script draws partly on actual events and on stories heard while growing up, including one about a woman who prostituted herself to repay a drug dealer.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ill Manors (2012)
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- During production the cast and crew ran into trouble with youths in Forest Gate, London, and filming was interrupted while a laptop containing the film's dailies had to be recovered after being stolen by a drug addict.
- When Plan B was 21 he had tried to begin production on another script he had written, Trigger, based on an incident in which his home was raided by armed police, but he was refused funding as an inexperienced director.
- To gain the necessary experience, Plan B wrote and directed his own short film Michelle in 2008, financing it himself with £4,000 from the remaining recording advance from his record label and an inheritance from his grandfather.
- The script was partly based on actual events and stories Plan B had heard when he was young, such as a woman prostituting herself in order to repay a drug dealer.
