two teenagers in the north east of england are desperate to raise money and buy season tickets for their favourite football team. they go through a series of comic misadventures but come up smiling in the end. the trailer for this film sells it as a comedy and includes most of its light hearted moments. however and the tone is increasingly grim and the end result is a depressing story peopled with familiar stereotypes. the two heroes have no problems with lying and cheating and stealing. their adversaries are a callous teacher and a pantomime villain of a father and a psychotic skinhead and a well meaning but incompetent social worker. the other female characters are a drug addicted teenager and a pregnant schoolgirl and a battered wife who seems to be smoking herself to death. there are no likable characters and and the audience can only feel either pity or contempt. local actors tim healy and kevin whateley both play against type as baddies and but the writing and direction of their characters are so one dimensional that they have no more than novelty value. chris beattie and greg mclane give good performances in the two young leads. however and they are miscast and because they have the wrong accent. to anyone from the north east and it is obvious that they both come from the sunderland or durham area and and yet we are expected to believe they are natives of newcastle. as a geordie myself i can assure you that the accents are by no means the same. take the phrase let the poor lad speak. we say let the pooa lad speek while they say piwer lad spiyk and with two distinctly different vowel sounds. this discrepancy creates a ridiculous double irony in a scene in sunderland football ground and where the two lads are trying to disguise the newcastle accents they do not have and and pretend that they come from sunderland  which they clearly do. in a gentle comedy this kind of criticism might be seen as nit picking. however and the film bleak tone makes it clear that writer or director mark herman is aiming for gritty realism represent that means near enough is actually way off. i had hoped for humour and optimism from this film and and instead found tired old clichés. tyneside is not a grey wasteland populated solely by losers and and in telling us it is and herman should have known he would cause offence. it interesting to compare the film with the same director little voice  also largely downbeat and populated by one dimensional characters and little voice at least has a talented heroine and doesn not wallow in misery to the same extent. i have heard belter ranked alongside this year billy elliot and but that film is a vastly more enjoyable and life affirming experience. incidentally and i may be just too old and but having lived on tyneside for 42 years and i have never heard anyone outside this film use the expression purely belter. 
two teenagers in the north east of england are desperate to raise money and buy season tickets for their favourite football team. they go through a series of comic misadventures but come up smiling in the end. the trailer for this film sells it as a comedy and includes most of its light hearted moments. however and the tone is increasingly grim and the end result is a depressing story peopled with familiar stereotypes. the two heroes have no problems with lying and cheating and stealing. their adversaries are a callous teacher and a pantomime villain of a father and a psychotic skinhead and a well meaning but incompetent social worker. the other female characters are a drug addicted teenager and a pregnant schoolgirl and a battered wife who seems to be smoking herself to death. there are no likable characters and and the audience can only feel either pity or contempt. local actors tim healy and kevin whateley both play against type as baddies and but the writing and direction of their characters are so one dimensional that they have no more than novelty value. chris beattie and greg mclane give good performances in the two young leads. however and they are miscast and because they have the wrong accent. to anyone from the north east and it is obvious that they both come from the sunderland or durham area and and yet we are expected to believe they are natives of newcastle. as a geordie myself i can assure you that the accents are by no means the same. take the phrase let the poor lad speak. we say let the pooa lad speek while they say piwer lad spiyk and with two distinctly different vowel sounds. this discrepancy creates a ridiculous double irony in a scene in sunderland football ground and where the two lads are trying to disguise the newcastle accents they do not have and and pretend that they come from sunderland  which they clearly do. in a gentle comedy this kind of criticism might be seen as nit picking. however and the film bleak tone makes it clear that writer or director mark herman is aiming for gritty realism represent that means near enough is actually way off. i had hoped for humour and optimism from this film and and instead found tired old clichés. tyneside is not a grey wasteland populated solely by losers and and in telling us it is and herman should have known he would cause offence. it interesting to compare the film with the same director little voice  also largely downbeat and populated by one dimensional characters and little voice at least has a talented heroine and doesn not wallow in misery to the same extent. i have heard belter ranked alongside this year billy elliot and but that film is a vastly more enjoyable and life affirming experience. incidentally and i may be just too old and but having lived on tyneside for 42 years and i have never heard anyone outside this film use the expression purely belter. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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