HERE COMES SUMMER

SUMMARY : “If you didn’t belong to a tribe, you weren’t anybody.”

HERE COMES SUMMER

“Here comes the Summer” is a British youth movie set in the violent Summer of 1981.  A time when mods, rude boys, new romantics, causals, punks, rastas and right wing skinheads jostle for attention and headline news on the volatile streets of Thatcher’s Britain as unemployment figures hit 3 million.  Fashion, music and politics seem inexorably linked.  The police are on every corner. Their thuggish counterparts, the ruthless Special Patrol Group (SPG) lurk in the shadows ad the army are on standby.  The streets of Britain are tense.

Paul is almost 18 and the only thing more important to him than his friends, music and girls is writing his fanzine.  When he secures an interview with Jerry Dammers if The Specials, Paul’s dream of breaking away seems closer than ever.  But when local right wing skinheads violently attack and disfigure one of Pual’s gang, he is pressured to put his future on hold as his best friend, Jamie exacts revenge.

Over the course of the night, Paul discovers the meaning and limitations of loyalty and self-sacrifice as he sees for himself the terrible casualties of tribalism, police brutality and political extremism. For the first time in his life, Paul has to make a hard choice between breaking from the past and reaching out for a different future.

Writers: Alan  McKenna & Ron Scalpello

Director: Ron Scalpello