Bill Nighy,
Blake Ritson,
Camille Sturton,
Daniel Lee,
David Kendall
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Dean, a troubled, working-class lad from London, lands a job in a high-end art gallery and glimpses a world where the right name means instant acceptance. When the blue-blooded gallery owner takes him...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 14, 2004
Stats: 27 reviews
AKA is writer/director Duncan Roy's thought-provoking memoir of his own youth. He escaped from a brutal, sexually abusive working-class household by assuming the identity of a young aristocrat and became famous - or notorious - in the process. Matthew Leitch is perfect as Dean, t...( read more)
Dean, an attractive, 18-year old man living in working-class Thatcher-era Britain, longs to go to college and 'make something' of himself. Trapped in a household with an abusive step-father and a mother who is either unaware or in denial about the situation, events lead to him be...( read more)
Some meek and angsty teenager gets sucked into the abyss of drugs and older men. When "gay cinema" gets bad, it gets really bad.
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