Suicide Kelly

2018, 75 minutes

Kes meets Billy Elliot

SUICIDE KELLY is a British boxing drama set in a neglected area of Leeds. The film explores social tensions in a post Brexit Britain and the importance sport plays in young people’s lives. The film focuses on Brendan Kelly, an alcoholic ex-boxer, contemplating suicide. He wastes each day, watching documentaries on immigration and stewing over a racially motivated attack that cost him his boxing career as a young man. When Cain, his troubled grandson, runs away from home to escape his abusive father, Brendan attempts to guide him away from his own self-destructive legacy.

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