Friday 13 September 2013

Shifty (2008 Eran Creevy & scr)

Daniel Mays returns to home town to visit friend Riz Ahmed, who's become a serious drug dealer. Jay Simpson is an out-of-control customer, Jason Flemyng a problematic associate and Eastenders' Nitin Ganatra is Riz' older, straight brother.

Funded by the BBC, and can be viewed as a public information film for sixth-formers. Certainly highlights the boredom of being a drug addict.

We'd watch Mays in anything. He's oddly watchable in a mainly passive role with long reaction shots. Ahmed also very good as is whole cast.

You can be sure there'll be no one clicking their red shoes together at the end.

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