Watch: SoulBoy 2010 123movies, Full Movie Online – A coming-of-age drama set in the 1970s Northern Soul underground music scene..
Plot: 1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that’s going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane: blonde, beautiful, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and all-nighter dancing at The Wigan Casino – the home of Northern Soul. Swept along on this tide of pulsating dance and lust, Joe becomes embroiled in the darker side of soul scene that will put his friendship to the test.
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could have been better but worth a watch all the same
I remember the buzz around this film a few years ago because it was shot in Stoke and part financed by the now disbanded Screen West Midlands. With whom I had some professional involvement. I can’t add anything to the already excellent user comments about this film but will say what I would do differently were I making it. As other users say its a coming of age story set against the northern soul scene of the mid seventies. I’ve got interested enough in northern soul to have researched it and Wigan Casino was one of umpteen clubs across the midlands and north of England. My strongest criticism of this film is it doesn’t work within its constraints of a low budget and the attempts to re create the Wigan Casino don’t convince. They needed a bigger budget, a bigger cast of extras and so on. If I was making the film I’d have thought a lot smaller and set it in a fictional soul club or maybe even a youth club in Stoke on Trent. Stoke had a major Northern soul venue in any case I can t remember the name, as did places like Droitwich and Wolverhampton. When Hollywood do period films they have the budget to chuck at it that it convinces. We can’t do it. There’s all of three period vehicles that appear in the film. Some of the costumes and detailing are wrong. Did digital watches have alarms in 1974? I doubt it. But this is nonetheless entertaining and worth a watch, especially if you like retro drama. I’ve seen clips from the forthcoming NORTHERN SOUL film which looks a lot more convincing. I was six years old in 1974 so too young to be part of any scene but I still remember the decade and certain things can transport me back. There’s a certain ‘look’ to the seventies and it needs a budget to achieve a convincing rendition in a film. What I saw of NORTHERN SOUL seemed to have it. SOULBOY is 2/3 of the way there, a commendable effort, worth seeing but in my opinion it would have been better if it had been a little more modest in it’s ambitions.
Even the music can’t save this facade
Once again we are presented with many different versions of the helpless, bumbling, western male until the lead male ‘does a little dance’ in order to impress a member of the opposite sex in the hope of some kind of redemption and therefore place in society and reason to exist. The film struggles to find a consistent tone, verging from someone getting a horrible beating in the toilets of the casino to the male lead’s inane grinning throughout the film. Further variations in tone range from someone receiving oral sex in a car to real life memories of the northern soul scene shown over the credits. The music takes a back seat to clique-ridden window dressing.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 22 min (82 min), 1 hr 20 min (80 min) (Netherlands)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Comedy, Drama, Music
Director Shimmy Marcus
Writer Mark Doherty, Jeff Williams
Actors Alfie Allen, Martin Compston, Hannah Crighton
Country United Kingdom
Awards 1 win & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio N/A
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Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm (Kodak Vision2 250D 7205, Vision2 500T 7218)
Cinematographic Process Super 16
Printed Film Format N/A