Beautiful Thing

Description

A long, hot summer in South London is the turning point in the life for two teenagers, Jamie and Ste. Ste, a popular sporting hero at school, is being bullied mercilessly by his drunken father and so he decides to seek refuge with Sandra, Jamie’s next door neighbour. One night, Jamie and Ste end up sleeping, top to tail, in the same bed in Sandra’s flat, and from these beginnings a touching romance develops between the two boys. Synopsis The offbeat, underachieving denizens of a South East London apartment building get an emotional wake-up call when two of the neighbors–two teen boys–unexpectedly fall in love. Beautiful Thing–adapted from the play by Jonathan Harvey–features tender-hearted, kitchen sink realism from Channel Four Films.