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Movie Info

Filmmaker Penny Woolcock returns to Birmingham to help feuding gangs end fighting that has raged for over 30 years.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English (United Kingdom)
Director:

Penny Woolcock
Producer:

James Purnell
Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 23, 2017
Runtime:

1h 30m

Cast & Crew

Penny Woolcock
Director

Peter Dale
Executive Producer

Daniel Lawson
Executive Producer

James Purnell
Producer

Urban Monk
Original Music

Alex Fry
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Critic Reviews for One Mile Away

All Critics (12) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (3)

An eye-opening process.

March 29, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Derek Malcolm
London Evening Standard
The doc's short on context, and too forgiving of its poster boys, but as a study of their commitment to bettering themselves and the community, it's inspiring.

March 28, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Henry Barnes
Guardian
Engaging, thoughtful, funny, fearless.

March 28, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Basia Cummings
Little White Lies
This is a vital and important film - just not to watch.

March 28, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Robbie Collin
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Woolcock should have realised that somewhere amid all her shapeless "docu" there was a "drama" - this one, a human one - to be found and properly focused.

March 27, 2013 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
Genuinely eye-opening.

March 26, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Dave Calhoun
Time Out
Woolcock's latest refuses to accept an oversimplification of the situation - and demands that the audience do the same.

February 13, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Sonia Zadurian
CineVue
The picture covers familiar ground and tends to ramble somewhat repetitively.

April 1, 2013 | Full Review…

Philip French
Observer (UK)
For this documentary about gang rivalry, filmmaker Penny Woolcock returns to the setting of her 2009 rap musical 1 Day and finds a story that's even more powerful than the first time around.

March 29, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Rich Cline
Contactmusic.com
If One Mile Away can foster a sense of whole-city community within certain factions, a 7 Up style sequel would be a good thing for everyone to aim for.

March 27, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Graham Young
Birmingham Post
Woolcock's coy interview style is a typically mixed blessing: it gains gang-members' trust, but a more probing approach might have revealed more.

March 22, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Total Film
The strength of One Mile Away is that it gives the viewer a palpable sense of what it's like to be caught up in these 'postcode' wars ...

March 14, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Tom Dawson
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