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Thriller, Drama, Mystery 110 min R
Rotten Tomatoes90%Metacritic63IMDb
Some people only learn the hard way.
Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.
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Polish director Jan Komasa is emerging as a serious talent worth watching. With **HEEL**, we are given something that initially recalls **A CLOCKWORK ORANGE**, but gradually feels closer to a folk-horror variation on **THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE** — a psychological tale of confinement, forced rehabilitation, and a very bad boy being coerced into becoming good. Before we get there, however, **HEEL** opens with what feels like 15 different production-company logos flashing across the screen — an unintentionally hilarious parade that starts to resemble a **FAMILY GUY** gag before the actual movie finally begins. But once the film gets going, it grabs ahold of you and rarely loosens its grip. Local Yorkshire droog Tommy (played by Anson Boon) is addicted to booze, drugs, sex and violence — wreaking havoc wherever he goes in a whirlwind of debauchery. Like a music video from The Prodigy, Tommy snorts, glugs, and rages aimlessly through life until one fateful evening when, in a drunken stupor, he is separated from his pals after collapsing unconscious in the street. When Tommy awakes, he discovers himself chained like a dog to a dingy mattress in the cellar of a Yorkshire farmhouse, tend
Read the whole review on TMDB“Tommy” (Anson Boon) is an odious cretin of a teenager who bullies, boozes and snorts his way through life until one night he finds himself all alone and somewhat the worse for wear. Next morning, we meet “Rina” (Monika Frajczyk) who has arrived at a remote country house where she is rather perfunctorily interviewed for a cleaning job by “Christopher” (Stephen Graham). On her subsequent tour of their home she is introduced to his borderline catatonic wife “Catherine” (Andrea Riseborough) and their son “Jonathan” (Kit Rakusen) before being taken downstairs to the basement and encountering a lad who is chained to the wall. Yep, that’s our “Tommy” - just as foul mouthed and threatening as before, only now he’s a bit more sober. Oddly enough, that doesn’t scare off “Rina” and so we know that she must have problems of her own as we now follow quite a menacingly bizarre process of what could be called rehabilitation for the angry young man, and possibly for others too. What I did enjoy here was the powerfully charismatic effort from a Boon who genuinely came across as obnoxious as we start out but who becomes someone altogether more shrewd as the dynamics in the house change in a series
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