Additional information for Young Soul Rebels, which has a domestic theatrical release set for December 6, 1991. The film is being distributed by Strand Releasing and has not yet been rated. Young Soul Rebels has a total running time of 105 minutes.
M
Australia
K-16
Finland
18
Spain
18
UK
R
USA
105min
La radio pirata
Spain
Young Soul Rebels: la radio pirata
Spain
May , 1991
France
August 09, 1991
UK
September 08, 1991
Canada
November 29, 1991
Netherlands
December 06, 1991
USA
February 07, 1992
Australia
April 08, 1992
France
March 26, 1993
Finland
June 18, 1993
Spain
June 13, 1998
USA
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Set in London in 1977, the plot takes place against the background of the Silver Jubilee. This is a buddy movie between two friends Chris and Caz who run a pirate radio station from a tower block in Dalston, East London. The film starts with a murder of their friend TJ while cruising for sex in the local park at night and, while Caz is cut up by the death of his friend, Chris seems to want to push forward towards a professional career in commercial radio. They both want to promote soul music while the prevailing popular music is punk.Chris meets Tracy at the recording studio and persuades her to get his audition tape heard but he is not ready to sell out his identity to get a job in the mainstream. Caz meets a punk Billibud who talks about communism and the Socialist Workers Party, while wearing (admittedly nicked) Vivienne Westwood designer T-shirts. The murder and the different paths they seem to be taking causes tension between the buddies Chris and Caz.Chris discovers that he has a tape recorded of the murder but fails to hand it in as evidence. He is then pulled in by the police as a suspect because he was in possession of TJ's cassette radio. He tries to call Caz but Caz is busy with his new boyfriend and trying to get a bigger aerial for their pirate radio station. He calls Tracy and she helps him to get a solicitor. He tells her about the tape and she advises him to hand it in as evidence, but again, he puts this off.Chris and Caz have their showdown on the roof of the tower block and Chris nearly falls off the roof. He then meets Tracy and she persuades him to send the tape to the police, but not before he has made a copy. They then make love on a rooftop.On the day of the Silver Jubilee celebrations Caz and Billibud go to the street fair, where Billibud is attacked by the local skinheads. Caz and Billibud return home and make love. That evening Chris goes to the radio station but Caz is not there and the studio has been vandalised. He starts broadcasting 'Funk the Jubilee' but it is not the same without his partner Caz. He then is attacked by TJ's murderer who turns out to be someone he and Caz had thought of as a friend. He escapes but can't find Caz.The grand reckoning is at an open air disco in the park where TJ was murdered. Caz and Billibud are MC's and Chris is trying to get to them to warn them that there is going to be trouble from TJ's murderer. A Molotov cocktail is thrown onto the stage and while Caz and Billibud try to save the vinyl records, Chris puts on the tape of TJ's murder, which brings him out and onto the stage where he falls to his death in the inferno of his own creation.There is a bitter-sweet background of the racial and sexual tensions of the British 1970's, with skinheads hassling Chris and Caz, local white's making snide remarks about how things have changed since they were young and blacks who are unable to decide if they hate whites, mixed-race people or 'batty boys' most. Yet, to balance this, the youth in the clubs are enjoying the music, drinking, dancing and bonking inter-racially and without strong prejudices about gay men kissing in clubs.The final scene with the main characters cleaning the records, the reconciliation of the two DJ buddies and the one-by-one each of the friends joining into dance together is very life-affirming.
Isaac Julien
Director(s)
Paul Hallam
Isaac Julien
Derrick Saldaan McClintock
Writer(s)
Ben Gibson
executive producer
Colin MacCabe
executive producer
Nadine Marsh-Edwards
producer
Producer(s)
Simon Boswell
Composer(s)
Chris
Valentine Nonyela
Caz
Mo Sesay
Ken
Dorian Healy
Ann
Frances Barber
Tracy
Sophie Okonedo
Billibud
Jason Durr
Davis
Gary McDonald
Jill
Debra Gillett
Carlton (as Eamon Walker)
Eamonn Walker
Sparky
James Bowers
Kelly
Billy Braham
Bigsy
Wayne Norman
Trish
Danielle Scillitoe
Jeff Kane
Ray Shell
Cid Man
Nigel Harrison
Policeman No. 1
Brian Conway
Policeman No. 2
Mike Mungarvan
Asian Punk Girl
Sayan Akaddas
TJ
Shyro Chung
Bouncer
Adam Price
Soul Boy No. 1
Michael Mascoll
Soul Boy No. 2
Freddie Brooks
Irvine
Rodriguez King-Dorset
Barber
Lloyd Anderson
Man in Barber Shop
Adam Stuatt
Man in Barber Shop
Astley Harvey
Radio Producer
Peter Harding
Football Supporter
Richard Jamieson
Stallkeeper
Mark Brett
Blue Rinse Lady
Joan Harsant
Trish's Friend
Verona Marshall
Trish's Friend
Frankie Palma
Set in London in 1977, the plot takes place against the background of the Silver Jubilee. This is a...
Director(s)
Isaac Julien
Derrick Saldaan McClintock
Writer(s)
executive producer
Colin MacCabe
executive producer
Nadine Marsh-Edwards
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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