The Firm (1989) on Netflix
Bex Bissell, an estate agent, leads the ICC football hooligan firm. He wants rival crews united for the European Championship, but the other leaders will not accept him in charge.
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Plot summary
Clive Bissell, called Bex, works as an estate agent and lives with his wife Sue and their baby son. In secret he leads the ICC, a hooligan crew that follows football. Sue no longer approves of his violence, while his father takes pride in it and says Bex and his mates have grown soft, since they carry weapons and think too much about tactics. A rival crew, the Buccaneers, vandalizes Bex's car and a dressing room, and their leader, Yeti, drives across a football pitch. With the European Championship approaching in West Germany, Bex proposes one national firm, made from several gangs, to take on foreign hooligan groups. At a meeting in a London hotel the other leaders welcome the plan, but none wants Bex in charge, so they agree to fight each other to decide who leads.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Firm (1989)
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- The Firm was Alan Clarke's last film; while shooting it he complained of backache, and producer David M. Thompson drove him to an osteopath. It was not backache: Clarke was diagnosed with cancer the following year and died in 1990.
- While filming the scene in which three rival hooligan firms meet at the Tower Hotel on Tower Bridge in London, a genuine fight broke out between members of the cast and caused damage to the hotel.
- Writer Al Hunter Ashton based the screenplay partly on his own life: he had himself been a member of a football "firm" for some years before writing the film.
- The film has almost no musical score and no diegetic music; the only music heard is Dean Martin's rendition of "That's Amore" over the opening titles.
