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Boy A [digital videodisc] / The Weinstein Company and Film4 present ; a Cuba Pictures production ; directed by John Crowley ; produced by Lynn Horsford, Nick Marston, Tally Garner ; screenplay by Mark O'Rowe.

[New York, NY] : Weinstein Co. ; Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by Genius Products, LLC, c2008.

Criminals -- Drama.

Young men -- Drama.

Self-perception -- Drama.

Youth -- England -- Drama.

Young men -- Conduct of life -- Drama.

Alienation (Social psychology) -- Drama.

Juvenile delinquents -- England -- Drama.

Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Manchester (England) -- Drama.

Miriam collection ; 9.

1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Escape -- Trouble at school -- Phillip -- Retribution -- Drink -- Going out -- Hunting the white whale -- Role reversal -- Newsworthy -- Making it right -- Stop the van -- Hundreds of doors -- Evening news -- Second half -- Why isn't it dead? -- No one can know -- Michelle is gone -- You're a murderer -- Don't threaten me -- Evil comes of age -- Thank you for trying -- End credits.

At the age of 10, two troubled and emotionally confused young boys drag a like-aged girl under a bridge and murder her. Brought to trial and known only as Boy A and Boy B, they are locked up by society for their heinous crimes for as long as the law allows, and the media spurns them as vicious monsters. Years later, Boy A is released from prison and looking for a new start. Now he is Jack, and in this new identity tries to integrate himself into a society he now finds unfamiliar and a bit terrifying. He's had no practice at hanging out with the boys at clubs or asking girls out on dates, and pop culture references sail over his head. But Jack is a gentlemanly sort--albeit in a forced, petrified way--and whatever bad deeds he's done in the past, he's ready to be shut of them. If only the rest of the world would let him.

Winner, 2008 Berlin International Film Festival Prize of the Ecumenical Jury--Panorama, John Crowley; 2008 BAFTA Awards, TV Awards for Best Photography and Lighting, Fiction/Entertainment--Rob Hardy; Best Editing, Fiction/Entertainment--Lucia Zucchetti; Best Director, Fiction/Entertainment--John Crowley; Best Actor--Andrew Garfield.

MPAA rating: Rated R for language, sexuality, some disturbing content and drug use.

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