• Director(s)

    Ian Puleston-Davies

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    98m

  • Cast

    Timothy Spall, Leanne Best, Mark Lewis Jones

Film

Bolan's Shoes

very strong language, strong violence, discrimination

A woman’s secret, tragic past resurfaces when she reunites with her long-lost sibling. This emotional but ultimately uplifting drama contains upsetting scenes involving mental illness and discriminatory bullying.…

A woman’s secret, tragic past resurfaces when she reunites with her long-lost sibling. This emotional but ultimately uplifting drama contains upsetting scenes involving mental illness and discriminatory bullying.

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Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

threat and horror

language

sex

discrimination

drugs

injury detail

theme

  • Director(s)

    Ian Puleston-Davies

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    98m

  • Cast

    Timothy Spall, Leanne Best, Mark Lewis Jones

very strong language, strong violence, discrimination
Classified Date:
17/08/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Munro Film Services
violence
A fragmented, blurry flashback sequence shows a boy attempting to strangle a younger child, who defends herself by stabbing him with an improvised weapon. Though the process detail is limited, the violence results in sight of blood splatter on the girl's face. In another scene, a child bloodies a bully's nose after he grabs her by her throat.
threat and horror
Infrequent scenes of threat include a short and moderately intense bus crash sequence, without visible injuries.
language
There is infrequent use of very strong language (‘c**t’) in addition to more frequent use of strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘bitch’, ‘twat’, ‘prick’, 'dick', ‘dickhead’, ‘knob’, ‘bugger’, ‘bloody’, ‘shit’, ‘pillock’, ‘piss’ and ‘bastard’.
sex
There are infrequent moderate sex references.
discrimination
In a strong scene of discriminatory behaviour, a drunk man and his friends invade a vulnerable man’s home and aggressively bully and demean him. When a woman tries to intervene, the ringleader behaves threateningly towards her, using misogynistic invective including the term ‘c**t’. There are brief scenes of homophobic childhood bullying, during which boys threaten to accuse a younger boy of exposing his genitals to them. In another scene a group of women make a series of classist jokes.
drugs
There is a passing reference to marijuana misuse, which is not condoned.
injury detail
We see brief blood splatter resulting from an impressionistic stabbing. Other scenes feature milder injury detail such as bloody noses.
theme
There are distressing scenes dealing with childhood trauma, bereavement and mental illness.
suicide and self-harm
A woman in a state of emotional upset suddenly strikes her head against a mirror, resulting in moderate bloody detail.
suicide and self-harm
In an upsetting scene, a person who is experiencing a mental health crisis attempts to take their own life; however, another person intervenes, and the situation comes to a reassuring conclusion.
very strong language, strong violence, discrimination
Classified Date:
11/03/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
101 Films Limited
violence
A fragmented, blurry flashback sequence shows a boy attempting to strangle a younger child, who defends herself by stabbing him with an improvised weapon. Though the process detail is limited, the violence results in sight of blood splatter on the girl's face. In another scene, a child bloodies a bully's nose after he grabs her by her throat.
threat and horror
Infrequent scenes of threat include a short and moderately intense bus crash sequence, without visible injuries.
language
There is infrequent use of very strong language (‘c**t’) in addition to more frequent use of strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘bitch’, ‘twat’, ‘prick’, 'dick', ‘dickhead’, ‘knob’, ‘bugger’, ‘bloody’, ‘shit’, ‘pillock’, ‘piss’ and ‘bastard’.
sex
There are infrequent moderate sex references.
discrimination
In a strong scene of discriminatory behaviour, a drunk man and his friends invade a vulnerable man’s home and aggressively bully and demean him. When a woman tries to intervene, the ringleader behaves threateningly towards her, using misogynistic invective including the term ‘c**t’. There are brief scenes of homophobic childhood bullying, during which boys threaten to accuse a younger boy of exposing his genitals to them. In another scene a group of women make a series of classist jokes.
drugs
There is a passing reference to marijuana misuse, which is not condoned.
injury detail
We see brief blood splatter resulting from an impressionistic stabbing. Other scenes feature milder injury detail such as bloody noses.
theme
There are distressing scenes dealing with childhood trauma, bereavement and mental illness.
suicide and self-harm
A woman in a state of emotional upset suddenly strikes her head against a mirror, resulting in moderate bloody detail.
suicide and self-harm
In an upsetting scene, a person who is experiencing a mental health crisis attempts to take their own life; however, another person intervenes, and the situation comes to a reassuring conclusion.
Classified Date:
14/08/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Munro Film Services

  • Classified date

    11/03/2024

  • Language

    English