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Pat Shortt in the new film Souled Out
The music, the people, the times....... 1974
1974 The North East of England
Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the
football terraces, restless JOE MCCAIN, (17) is bored with the
#atline tedium of a life that’s going nowhere. He trudges
through his Monday to Friday delivery van job, while pulling
o" some petty theft with his partner in crime and best friend
RUSS MOUNTJOY. Enter trainee hair-dresser JANE. Blonde,
brassy, and moving to the beat of a music that opens the
door to a whole new world of sound, movement and allnighter
dancing at The Wigan Casino - the home of Northern
Soul!
Joe persuades Russ to go with him to check it out. Once
there, Joe is seduced by the music, the dancing, the drugs
and Jane. He strikes up a friendship with MANDY a cute and
spunky artist who is eager to help Joe become the cool “soul
boy” he wants to be. She helps him learn the all important
dance moves and a friendship quickly develops as she
encourages him to open up and grow. Mandy falls for Joe
who is swept along on this tide of pulsating dance and lust,
!nally !nding somewhere he belongs.
As Joe falls deeper and deeper into the Northern Soul
scene, his new paradise is threatened by Jane’s drug dealing
boyfriend ALAN, Russ’s gangster cousin RONNIE, and a
crumbling friendship with Russ. A love triangle develops
with Jane and Mandy, and Joe has to decide what it is he
really wants in his life, and who is going to be there with him before he himself, gets seriously Souled Out.
Currently in production. On release soon! |
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