109. Scott and Sid; movie review

SCOTT AND SID
Cert 15
100 mins
BBFC advice: Contains strong language, sex references

Scott and Sid is the type of film which doesn't usually resonate with me - a low-budget teenage comedy which doesn't have enough laugh-out-loud gags.
And yet I found Scott Elliott and Sid Sadowskyj's movie disarming and a little bit daring.
The probable reason is that it is a labour of love - the true story of two young men who met as teenagers and had a dream of making a movie.
As the film shows, despite plenty of hurdles, they are irrepressible, refusing to see impediments to success.
If the movie is to be believed, the pair, played by Tom Blyth and Richard Mason, have created a string of businesses but have never wanted to rest on their successes - always chasing new dreams.
It opens in a school in York where Sid is a model student until influenced by new boy, Scott, who is in his fourth school in four years.
Scott sees no barrier to fulfilling his destiny. He cares nothing for a formal education (partially because he has the attention span of a goldfish) but that does not diminish his ambition.
Meanwhile, Sid needs a release from a terrible home life in which his depressed single-parent mother has disappeared into a pool of vodka.
The pair's meeting turns out to be kismet - it is just the right time and their personalities compliment each other perfectly.
However, theirs is far from an easy path - they a bullied and beaten by others and have their explosive own fall-outs.
But, ultimately, they have raised £1m to make an autobiographical movie which is easily good enough to be seen in multiplexes.
That, in itself, is an incredible feat.

Reasons to watch: Engaging and disarming bro-dance
Reasons to avoid: Doesn't have enough funny moments

Laughs: Two
Jumps: None
Vomit: Yes
Nudity: None
Overall rating: 7/10

Director's quote - Scott Elliott: "Having wanted to make a film since we were teenagers, the fact that we are on the brink of releasing a story based on our lives is incredible. To film in the region we grew up in was an honour."

The big question - Can anyone make a movie if they set their minds to it?

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