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Scouting Book For Boys 3 May 2010




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BDi composer, Jack C Arnold, scores music for the new film, Scouting Book For Boys, released on 19th March and directed by Tom Harper. Cast: Holly Grainger, Rafe Spall, Steven Mackintosh, Susan Lynch, Thomas Turgoose, Tony Maudsley

The endearing Grimsby teenager Thomas Turgoose, who made such a mark as the 12-year-old lad fallen among Lincolnshire neo-Nazis in Shane Meadows's This is England, gives a touching performance as David, a lonely lad living with a boozy father on a caravan site in Norfolk and experiencing an edgy brother-sister relationship with Emily (Holliday Grainger), a pretty redhead a year or so his senior and infinitely more mature. The pair spend the summer jumping from caravan to caravan, like wild boys of the road leaping from boxcar to boxcar in Depression America, and rolling around on the cliffs. Their idyll ends when Emily's slatternly mother wants to send her to live with her father, and David conspires to hide her in a concealed cave. But their plan goes wrong, first dangerously when the police intervene, then tragically, as David misreads Emily's affections. It is beautifully photographed in a manner that alternates between the romantic and the realistic by Robbie Ryan (who shot Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Fish Tank) and perceptively scripted by Jack Thorne; Tom Harper's feature debut is a confident work of considerable promise.