Neds Page #3

Synopsis: Despite having a drunken, abusive father and a brother who leads a local gang John McGill is a studious boy for whom a bright educational future seems to beckon. However his studiousness isolates him and when he is invited to join the gang it gives him a sense of belonging. However he becomes increasingly more violet, stabbing a boy in the neck, for which his brother is blamed and jailed, and dropping a breeze block on a rival gang leader, causing him permanent brain damage. John is temporarily thrown out of his home by his mother and suspended from school though when he is readmitted he is placed in the remedial class. John now has no interest in education but in being the top boy amongst the NEDS or non-educated delinquents. He is invincible, and even the lions at the local safari park let him pass without attacking him.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Peter Mullan
Production: Tribeca Films
  7 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
PG-13
Year:
2010
124 min
$283,210
316 Views


You fat slag!

Come down here, right now!

Right now!

Fat b*tch.

Now...as you can see,

I've written the marks

in the top right-hand corner.

Now some of you,

if not indeed most of you,

might assume that

these are marks out of 10

and thus think that

you have done rather well.

But, in fact,

these are marks out of 100.

And you have embarrassed

yourselves.

One pupil, however, has embarrassed

himself more than all the others.

Stand up, Mr McGill.

Now before you all sharpen

your adolescent claws,

let me tell you

that the source of this young man's

embarrassment...

...lies not in failure

but in a shining success.

100 out of 100. Full marks.

Now, this shall no doubt,

result in you singling

Mr McGill out as a swot.

So, I have decided to take it

upon myself to get it in first.

You are a swot, Mr McGill.

You have the temerity

to exercise your intelligence

and thus rise above

the mediocrity of your peers.

Come on. Up you get.

Take your place upon the podium,

up here, on the upper level. Please.

An example to you all, boys.

Mr McGill...l salute you.

Round of applause for Mr McGill.

- All right. That's enough.

- Arsehole.

Any of those snowballs hit me, you'll

get a toe right up your arse.

Youse have been warned.

Oi! What one of youse two

threw that?

What's your name?

Right, listen up. I have averaged out

your various class marks.

Top of the class with 87%...

...Liam McCole.

Well done, McCole.

Second is 85%...

- ...John McGill.

- Yes!

Sit down, McGill.

Try and curb your enthusiasm.

- I thought I was going next door, sir.

- Sit down!

You could show your classmates

a little bit more respect.

Despite what you may think,

they have also worked hard

these last few months.

Third place, with 80%,

Stephen McLaughlin.

Fourth with 79%, Dean Walker.

Fifth, with 75%, Lloyd Butler.

Also with 75%...

Mitchell, Brown.

McCole, McGill.

Take your seats.

And stop your crying.

Why, whenever a boy is sent

to this class, he seems to think

he's in the beginning of a never-ending

downward spiral to failure?

Now I'm starting to take this personally!

I am just as good as any other teacher

in this or any other bloody school.

You don't know you're born.

You could have had, like me,

an education with the nuns...

Wait! Before you all...

Wait, shut up. Shut your mouth!

Before you all go away,

here, book tokens.

Third place...

...McKendrick. There we go.

Second place, Engels.

There you go.

And first, McGill.

All right, now you can go.

On your way. Enjoy your summers.

John, wait there, please.

Have fun.

You did very well this year.

Thank you, sir.

- Going on holiday with your family?

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Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan (; born 2 November 1959) is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role in Ken Loach's My Name Is Joe (1998), for which he won Best Actor Award at 1998 Cannes Film Festival and The Claim (2000). He is also winner of the World Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performances at 2011 Sundance Film Festival for his work on Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur (2011). Mullan appeared as supporting or guest actor in numerous cult movies, including Riff-Raff (1991), Braveheart (1995), Trainspotting (1996), Young Adam (2003), Children of Men (2006), War Horse (2011) and the Harry Potter film series (2010–11). Mullan is an acclaimed art house movie director. He won a Golden Lion at 59th Venice International Film Festival for The Magdalene Sisters, listed by many critics among the best films of 2003 and nominated for BAFTA Award for Best British Film and European Film Award for best film, and a Golden Shell at San Sebastián International Film Festival for Neds. He is the only person to win top prizes both for acting (Cannes best actor award) and for the best film (Golden lion for The Magdalene Sisters) at major European film festivals. In television, Mullan appeared in Gerard Lee's and Jane Campion's acclaimed miniseries Top of the Lake as one of the main characters, head of the Mitcham family and father of Tui Mitcham, whose disappearance is the main topic of the series. He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for his work in the series. He played a lead role in the 2008 ITV series The Fixer. In 2017, he appeared in the Netflix series Ozark opposite Jason Bateman and Laura Linney. Since 2016, Mullan has starred in the BBC Two sitcom Mum. In 2018, he stars in the second season of HBO's Westworld. Mullan is also politically active, supporting left-wing causes and protests. more…

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