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Title: STARRED UP

Reference number: 13905

Date: 2014

Director: d. David Mackenzie

Sponsor: Creative Scotland and BFI Film Fund

Production company: Sigma Films

Sound: sound

Certificate: 18

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 101.36 mins

Description: Eric, a violent teenager is transferred from a young offenders institute to an adult prison where his estranged father is also an inmate. As the already volatile relationship between the two is pushed to breaking point, Eric is approached by the prison psychotherapist who invites him to join his discussion group, leading Eric to reflect on his life and actions. [Synopsis taken from the BFI archive, https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/529541008c805, last accessed 03/11/21]

Catalogued from secondary sources including the BFI archive and the BBFC.

See here for a Film4 interview special with the Director David Mackenzie and actor Jack O'Connell, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaDQMsZi1Xw [last accessed 03/11/21].