What if Kafka woke up as a soccer hooligan? Class warfare via gene soup.
An illegal psychic teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, and pretentious promo director Patrick gets his genes mixed with those of a football hooligan. Slowly, he begins to change - taking on some undeniably yobbish tendencies.
Acting
Keith Allen's physical transformation from priss to thug is genuinely committed.
Writing
Razor-sharp satire of 80s advertising culture and class pretension.
Director
Ian Emes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for Channel 4's 'The Comic Strip Presents...'—part of the alternative comedy wave that weaponized working-class aesthetics against Thatcher-era pretension.
Peter Wyngarde (Mr Kendel) was already cult-famous as Jason King; his presence here is deliberate class-parody casting.
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