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Details: 2009, UK, Cert 15, 71 mins
Direction: Shane Meadows
Genre: Comedy
Summary: A roadie sets out to make his sidekick a star, with a little help from the Arctic Monkeys
With: Arctic Monkeys, Dean Palinczuk, Olivia Coleman, Olivia Colman, Paddy Considine, Richard Graham, Scor-Zay-Zee, Seamus O'Neil and Seamus O'Neill
Our reviews
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Philip French
Shane Meadows' rockumentary is outrageously funny, says Philip French
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Peter Bradshaw
Shane Meadows shows us his lighter side with a low-budget, improvised mockumentary comedy, says Peter Bradshaw
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Andrew Pulver
Edinburgh film festival
Shane Meadows heads into Spinal Tap territory with this entertaining mock rockumentary, says Andrew Pulver
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Shane Meadows's latest - a mockumentary made in five days following Paddy Considine's deluded roadie - could teach Hollywood a thing or two about economy, says Xan Brooks
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A roadie sets out to make his sidekick a star, with a little help from the Arctic Monkeys
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Director Shane Meadows has explored the British condition in a series of funny, moving, gritty movies, most famously This Is England. His friend Paddy Considine has acted in them, and found Hollywood fame too. Now together they have made the ultimate British budget film in five days flat. Sean O'Hagan met the Midlands mavericksâ¦
