Storyline

Eleven-year-old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has the entire kit but none of the skill, and he's a laughingstock at school. So when a Jamaican family moves in next door and builds a cricket net in the back garden, David is in seventh heaven. But this is 1960s Britain, and when the neighbours start to make life difficult for the new arrivals, David's family is caught in the middle, and he has to choose between fitting in and standing up for the new friends who have turned his world upside-down.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords

beer, interracial relationship, husband wife relationship, girl next door, firefighter, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, fantasy sequence, dreamer, coming of age, church, burning house, breaking the fourth wall, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, birthday party, intimidation, judaism, mother son relationship, gift, cricket the sport

Short Review

This competitive atmosphere of unease moves the film along, but it is full of forebodings that it does not follow through. Something for socially alert, gentle 12-year olds.

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