May 5, 1995
I.D. is a 1995 British-German film made by BBC Films about football hooliganism, directed by Philip Davis, written by Vincent O'Connell, and starring Reece Dinsdale, Sean Pertwee and Warren Clarke. It is set in 1988 in the London area of Shadwell, England and is a story about a group of Metropolitan Police officers who are sent undercover to infiltrate a gang of dangerous football hooligans.
Although set in London, a lot of the film was filmed in South Yorkshire in particularly Rotherham and Sheffield. Millmoor stadium in Rotherham served as Shadwell Town's fictional home "The Kennel". The tagline is "When you go undercover, remember one thing... Who you are." The true events that inspired the movie are chronicled in the 2013 book Running with the Firm written by former undercover detective James Bannon. The film has a cult following. In 2016, twenty one years after the original the film was released, it received a sequel named ID2: Shadwell Army.
Storyline
Four young police officers are sent undercover to infiltrate a gang of hooligans who are on the fringes of the support for a London football club. Only total commitment will gain the undercover cops the acceptance they need to do their job - but how far should they go to live the life of the football thug? One of the officers suffers a personality crisis, his standards corroded by the effects of violent macho behaviour.
Also See
- ID2: Shadwell Army (2016)
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