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United Kingdom
6.7 1h 30m

County Lines

A powerful drama about a mother and her fourteen year old boy who is groomed into a lethal nationwide drug selling enterprise, a 'County Line', which exploits vulnerable children and traffics them across Britain.

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Top Cast

  • Conrad Khan

    Conrad Khan

    Tyler

  • Ashley Madekwe

    Ashley Madekwe

    Toni

  • Tabitha Milne-Price

    Tabitha Milne-Price

    Aliyah

  • Harris Dickinson

    Harris Dickinson

    Simon

  • Marcus Rutherford

    Marcus Rutherford

    Sadiq

  • Anthony Adjekum

    Anthony Adjekum

    Laurence

  • Chizzy Akudolu

    Chizzy Akudolu

    Sophie

  • Ebenezer Gyau

    Ebenezer Gyau

    Deontay

  • Johanna Stanton

    Johanna Stanton

    Izzy Merlo

Overview

A powerful drama about a mother and her fourteen year old boy who is groomed into a lethal nationwide drug selling enterprise, a 'County Line', which exploits vulnerable children and traffics them across Britain.

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6.7 / 10
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  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    7 Jul 20, 2024

    If you're not in the know about drug trafficking parlance, then the title won't mean much - but that's not so important as we get to know "Tyler" (Conrad Khan). He lives with his drop-out mum "Toni" (Ashley Madekwe) and young sister. His school life is pretty torrid and despite efforts from the teachers and his mother to help, he remains introspective and prone to violence. Then he meets "Simon" (Harris Dickinson). He's a chavvy sort of guy, black Mercedes and plenty of cash to splash - and he doesn't overtly try to recruit the young "Tyler". He waits patiently for him to come to him - and that's when the spiral begins. He can make easy money by shipping narcotics from the city to the more rural punters where supply is more limited and more lucrative. What "Tyler" doesn't realise is, though, he's just a pawn in a game - and "Simon" is using loads of other lads like him to keep him in clover. It's the increasingly stark realisation that his choices are going to leave him battered, high and dry that gets us to a denouement that is predicable, but quite potent. Dickinson does quite well as the charmingly malevolent pusher with a big smile and a ruthless streak a mile wide, Madekwe also performs strongly as the mother who must get her act together to protect what is her's - but essentially this is a story about a young man with little hope and a hell of a lot of frustrations and Khan plays that role assuredly. At times the audio mix isn't the best and coupled with their dark and dingy flat can make the film a little difficult to follow at the start, but those same filming techniques also contribute to the general bleakness of the plot.

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