• Synopsis
  • Reviews
  • Credits
  • Synopsis

    A feel-good, heart-warming film set in Yorkshire in 1977 about an adolescent boy’s big summer after leaving school.

    Autumn 1977. Derek ‘Dusty’ Springfield (Luke Newberry) is an 18-year-old misfit, who five years earlier was plucked from his home in the industrial outskirts of Leeds to attend Public School on a scholarship. He has just returned home at the end of his studies to wait for his Oxbridge results that he’s hoping will result in his permanent escape. Life at home is awkward for the brainy lad and embarrassing for his working class family who can’t relate: his feckless dad, no-nonsense mum and two older brothers; one a football hopeful and the other a distinctly dodgy acquirer of flash consumer goods.

    In the wait for his university exam results, Dusty befriends a lightning fast Greyhound, comically named Slapper by his older brother and the two become inseparable. When two bumbling thieves attempt to kidnap Slapper, Dusty must do all he can to protect him, whilst trying to earn the respect of his family again. Dusty can’t believe his luck when his crush from afar, the out-of-his-league Chrissie (Genevieve Gaunt), agrees to help him find Slapper. All the while, his results day is looming over him, and his future lies sealed within an envelope.

  • Reviews

    Simple but quite sweet.

    Mail on Sunday, Matthew Bond

  • Credits

    Luke Newberry
    Derek/Dusty
    Genevieve Gaunt
    Chrissie
    Ben Batt
    Little Eddie
    Iain Glen
    Mickey the Bubble
    Ian Hart
    Big Eddie
    Lesley Sharp
    Lil
    Lee Ross
    Bill
    Tom Prior
    George
    Director
    Betsan Morris Evans

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