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8 October 1993 (UK) moreTagline:
London Is Not Only Losing Her Soul To The Americans, She's Selling It. morePlot:
The London police is having trouble with organized crime commited by juvenile delinquents. Their leader... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
badly aging thriller drama moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Harvey Keitel | ... | John Harris | |
| Iain Glen | ... | Edward Foster | |
| John Wood | ... | Richard Donnelly | |
| Terence Rigby | ... | Sidney Callow | |
| Keith Allen | ... | Jack Doyle | |
| Craig Kelly | ... | Christian O'Neill | |
| Thandie Newton | ... | Rachael Stevens | |
| Viggo Mortensen | ... | Carl Frazer | |
| Dave Duffy | ... | Louis Carnegie | |
| Geoffrey McGivern | ... | Brian Carver | |
| Nigel Clauzel | ... | Lionel Stevens | |
| Huggy Leaver | ... | Mark Byrne | |
| Dig Wayne | ... | Gary Washington | |
| Christopher Adamson | ... | Billy Cohen (as Chris Adamson) | |
| James Duggan | ... | Dermot O'Neill |
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Brazil:104 min | UK:103 minCountry:
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Finland:K-16 | Iceland:16 | South Korea:15 | Hungary:18 | Australia:M | Norway:18 | UK:18 | USA:RFun Stuff
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During one of the club scenes, a remix of Nine Inch Nails' "Gave Up" is playing. This version has never been released officially or unofficially and the only know fragment can be heard in this movie. It appears to be an alteration of the remix found on NIN's EP "Fixed." moreSoundtrack:
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'The Young Americans' was made in the 90s - a quite routine thriller story about an American cop sent to London to follow a drug baron. The theme of cops in foreign territory was largely dealt with before and after this movie, and allowed for some good films to be made. Detective stories, and stories about detectives are a good ground to present culture clash in the context of tense situations. Not here, where the only difference is in the hard spoken accents of the characters, and no real tension or relationship develops around the main character or with respect to his Brit counterparts. Some good acting from Harvey Keitel and the two young actors trying to describe a pure relationship in the trash of the underground world cannot save the day in this rather boring movie, where nothing special happens, not more than in an average BBC police drama.