Terry on the Fence

Name: Terry on the Fence
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1 h 10 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Jack McNicholl, Neville Watson, Tracey Ann-Morris

1986
1h 10m

IMDb RATING

6.0/10

YOUR RATING

Drama

A mixed-up, teenage runaway becomes involved with a tough teenage street gang and its lawless activities while trying to find a way to redeem himself.A mixed-up, teenage runaway becomes involved with a tough teenage street gang and its lawless activities while trying to find a way to redeem himself.A mixed-up, teenage runaway becomes involved with a tough teenage street gang and its lawless activities while trying to find a way to redeem himself.

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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
Final film of Marianne Stone.

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Review

Featured review

8/10

"See ya, pigface!"

As befits a product of the Thatcherite eighties, 'Terry on the Fence' offers a worldlier perspective of life on the streets (which finds expression in the underground argot implied by its title), the language employed by the roughnecks who force our hero to break into his school and steal a couple of radios more raw; while the nearest thing the film provides to a conventional CFF villain is the receiver briefly seen wearing a bright red shirt and two-tone shoes.

The characterisation throughout is far more nuanced than we've previously been accustomed to; the gang's ringleader actually enlisting our sympathy when we see how afraid he is of his brassy abusive mother.