The Young Americans (1993)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Danny Cannon

Writers:

Danny Cannon (writer) &
David Hilton (writer)

Release Date:

8 October 1993 (UK)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

London Is Not Only Losing Her Soul To The Americans, She's Selling It.

Plot:

The London police is having trouble with organized crime commited by juvenile delinquents. Their leader...

Plot Keywords:

Police | Gangster | Rave Culture | Police Motorcycle | Club Life

Cast

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

Runtime:

Brazil:104 min | UK:103 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Iceland:16 | South Korea:15 | Hungary:18 | Australia:M | Norway:18 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Jacob Street Studios, Jacob Street, Bermondsey, London, England, UK

Company:

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

Trivia:

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."

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Nobody Does It Better: The Music of James Bond (1997) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Don't Let Up

badly aging thriller drama

'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.