Weekender

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Movie Info

Two friends move from partying in abandoned warehouses to promoting the gatherings in the Ibiza rave scene of the early '90s.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Karl Golden
Producer:

Ian Brady, Stephen Salter, Robert Walak
Writer:

Chris Coghill
Release Date (Streaming):

Aug 10, 2016
Runtime:

1h 30m

Cast & Crew

Zawe Ashton
Sarah

Jack O'Connell
Dylan

Henry Lloyd-Hughes
Matt

Emily Barclay
Claire

Dean Andrews
Sargent Thompson

Stephen Wight
Gary Mac

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Critic Reviews for Weekender

All Critics (11) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (10)

You don't feel a time and a place have been captured with much detail.

September 2, 2011 | Rating: 2/5

Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Weekender isn't a very original film but at least the music score sounds authentic and director Karl Golden keeps the pace going.

September 2, 2011 | Rating: 2/5

Derek Malcolm
London Evening Standard
It's rammed with cliches and silliness and conforms to a lot of stereotypes, the most suspect being the obligatory scene in Ibiza whose only purpose is to show loads of young women with no tops on.

September 1, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
A dead party with too few tricks up its sleeve.

August 31, 2011 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Martyn Conterio
Little White Lies
From the opening voiceover to the out-of-their-heads party scenes, it's utterly generic.

August 31, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Cath Clarke
Time Out
A bang-on soundtrack will make the hairs on ex-ravers' necks stand up. The plot will have the opposite effect.

August 31, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Damon Wise
Empire Magazine
The perennial problem with party films is that the viewer is made to feel a wallflower, looking on from the sidelines, and director Karl Golden does nothing to dispel that sense of distance here.

September 8, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Brian Pendreigh
Radio Times
A poor man's Human Traffic.

September 1, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Henry Fitzherbert
Daily Express (UK)
It's hard to not get caught up by the smoky, strobe-filled excess of easy money and ecstasy-enhanced raves.

September 1, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Becky Bartlett
The Skinny
The script is all over the place and the lacklustre direction ensures that it never quite delivers the rush you're hoping for.

August 31, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
The leads gurn gamely, Ben Batt's villain oozes menace and Golden directs energetically, but the climactic twists are as convincing as pills made of washing powder.

August 30, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Kevin Harley
Total Film

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Audience Reviews for Weekender

Jan 07, 2012

A look back at the 90s rave culture in Manchester, and 2 up for it guys starting their own raves but getting involved with the bad elements jusat as much as the good times, the film runs along nicely and although its heavy handed at times, which cover doesnt show, it knows when to show fun and the good times of that period

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