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Green Street Hooligans (Lexi Alexander) is about a kid named Matt (Elijah Wood) who takes the blame for something that results in him getting kicked out of Harvard, and then goes to England to visit his sister. There, he meets his brother-in-law’s brother, Pete (Charlie Hunnam), who is the leader of a “firm” of football enthusiasts who take their team VERY seriously.

It’s a pretty fun movie. There are a bunch of graphic fight scenes that caused me the occasional wince. They’re very glamourized and it’s obvious that a lot of care went into shooting and choreographing them. The story was fine, but it ended up being one of those coming-of-age movies where way too much comes and there’s not enough actual aging.

Anyway, Elijah Wood fan that I am, it was still pretty satisfying seeing the crap get beaten out of him. Apparently one of the reasons that he got this part was because he was perceived to be the exact cultural fish-out-of-water as his character.

It was written and directed by Lexi Alexander – I read that she is a professional kick-boxer, so her love of fighting and the like is the perspective that Green Street is coming from in regards to how it took precedent over story. Still good, though.