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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Meadows returns to Nottingham youth culture with the same rough-edged humour, restless friendship and sudden threat, but gives the characters a more emotionally intricate coming-of-age arc.
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Why this pick
A fierce, unvarnished British youth drama whose confrontational immediacy and institutional anger suit the abrasive realism beneath Small Time’s local-crime camaraderie.
03
Why this pick
Another intensely performed, unsentimental portrait of working-class friendship and damage, filmed with the intimate volatility and lived-in texture that Small Time foreshadows.
04
Why this pick
For the harder emotional side of British social realism: a compact, deeply acted Midlands drama that finds fragile human connection amid anger, deprivation and self-destruction.
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Why this pick
Its subjective, tactile view of an economically battered neighbourhood trades banter for lyricism, while retaining the sense of young lives shaped by cramped streets and limited choices.
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01 / THE STORY
The film follows a group of friends that are small-time criminals in Sneinton, a suburb of Nottingham. The main protagonists are best friends, Jumbo and Malc. At the beginning of the film we hear Jumbo narrating, "We're not into anything heavy. We just rob from the rich and sell it to the poor for half price. We're just small time."
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Lenny the Fence
Crutch
Yoga Teacher
Cuban Chef
Hoover Buyer
Jumbo