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- BFI identifier361559
- Date1991 (Copyright)
1991-06-21 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisIn London, in the early 1990s. Stevie, recently arrived from Glasgow and sleeping rough, gets a job on a building site, and settles into a squat found with the help of his co-workers. A relationship develops with young drifter and aspiring singer Susan, but is terminated when she succumbs to drug abuse. (Synopsis)
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- CreditsDirector: Ken Loach
©: Channel Four Television Co. Ltd
A Parallax Pictures production: Parallax Pictures
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Riff-Raff (Original)
Riff Raff (Help search)
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10.5240/78D4-19B7-4DC5-6667-5641-3Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
This work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
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view all - Scripts / DocumentsConversation with Jimmi and Harp - Typed notes taken from a recording of a "CONVERSATION WITH JIMMI AND HARP", with discussion topics including theft, prison, community service, court, being scared, the YTS scheme [Youth Training Scheme], flower arranging, job seeking, life in the streets, their play, and glue-sniffing. On the verso of page four is a draft hand-written letter to Gail from Loach, titled "Re Riff-Raff" regarding the first draft and payments for the writer, and that the contract has not yet been received. Loach also comments on the change in company from Macauley Films to Real Time Films. [For further material relating to 'Riff-Raff', please see KCL-22]. - KCL-20-1-3
Riff-Raff - Contains papers relating to the making of 'Riff-Raff'. [Steve, an unemployed Scot, recently out of prison, gets a job on a building site in London, and settles into a squat found with the help of his co-workers. A relationship develops with a young drifter, Susan, but is terminated when she succumbs to drug abuse.] [Please note, 'Riff-Raff' letter on back of dialogue in woodpile KCL-20-1-3]. - KCL-22
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-7c4
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view all - ArticlesSight and Sound v8 n3 March 1998 - ArticleInterview v23 n1 January 1993 - ReviewPremiere v6 n3 November 1992 - NoteSight and Sound v1 n1 May 1991 - Credits, Review, SynopsisScreen International n762 23 Jun 1990 - Creditsview all
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