This docudrama has the look of a public information film to it as we spend a day with half a dozen kids who are bunking off from school and hanging around London’s Shepherd’s Bush area causing mischief. Initially, it’s all petty stuff: pinching oranges and the like. Then, though, they progress to more serious crimes like breaking and entering, car thieving and that’s when the constabulary become more involved. When we follow the youngsters we see them portrayed by actors who rather well capture their sense of boredom coupled with their lack of money. When we shift to the perspective of the aut…
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