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Drama set in Birkenhead in 1979. Nicky Bell stars as 19-year-old Paul Carty, a bored, middle-class, junior civil servant who becomes involved in 'The Pack', a gang of 'casuals' who live for drugs, music, casual sex, football, fighting and, perhaps most importantly, fashion - specifically Fred Perry shirts, Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills trainers. As his intense relationship with fellow Pack member Elvis (Liam Boyle) begins to verge on the destructive, Paul finds himself plunged into a dark and violent world from which he cannot escape.

When Carty meets Elvis at a Bunnymen gig they fall headlong into a volatile friendship that each of them aches for but neither can control Violent sexy and funny Awaydays is a blade-sharp rites-of-passage that buzzes with the post-punk energy of its late-70&39;s Liverpool setting Based on the classic novel by Kevin Sampson and pulsating to a soundtrack of Joy Division The Cure Magazine Echo & The Bunnymen and Ultravox Awaydays examines identity fate the nature of male longings and their need to belong It is the first major feature film to be set during and evocatively portray the first dawning of the football casual fashion cult Quadropheniameets Control; Trainspotting meets Stand By Me Awaydays is all of these - A Catcher In The Rye with switchblades ActorsStephen Graham Nicky Belle Liam Boyle Oliver Lee Holly Grainger Lee Battle Sean Ward Michael Ryan Ian Puleston-Davies Sacha Parkinson Samantha McCarthy & Dean SmithDirectorPat HoldenCertificate18 years and overYear2009LanguagesEnglish