Prime-Video - Boyz in the Wood Worldwide on August 7th, 2020

By Mulder, 09 may 2020

“ I've been living in London for a long time now, and I've made lots of different works, but for my first feature film I had this very strong feeling about returning to Scotland and doing something in the vernacular I grew up with. I was born and bred in Edinburgh, with a Dutch mother and an English father. I also remember when the first Trainspotting came out, I was 14 or 15, already a huge movie fan, and that movie wasn't simply Scottish, it was anarchic, electric, visually creative, plus everyone spoke in the same accent as me and my friends. I felt like we haven't had a cool region-specific movie like than in a long time, with humor, personality and energy. “ – Ninian Doff

From writer-director Ninian Doff—making his feature debut after a slew of award-winning music videos and short films for artists including Run the Jewels, Miike Snow, Migos, and Mykki Blanco —comes an anarchic cocktail of generational politics, hip-hop loving farmers, and hallucinogenic rabbit droppings that pits the youth of tomorrow against the status quo of yesterday. Boyz in the Wood stars Eddie Izzard, Kate Dickey, Georgie Glen, James Cosmo and a breakout young cast featuring Samuel Bottomley, Viraj Juneja, Rian Gordon, and Lewis Gribben.

Synopsis:
Dean, Duncan and DJ Beatroot are teenage pals from Glasgow who embark on the character-building camping trip—based on a real-life program—known as the Duke of Edinburgh Award, where foraging, teamwork and orienteering are the order of the day. Eager to cut loose and smoke weed in the Scottish Highlands, the trio finds themselves paired with straight-laced Ian, a fellow camper determined to play by the rules. After veering off-path into remote farmland that's worlds away from their urban comfort zone, the boys find themselves hunted down by a shadowy force hell-bent on extinguishing their futures.

Boyz in the Wood
Written and Directed by Ninian Doff
Produced by Brian Coffey, Tobey Maguire, Matthew Plouffe, Laura Tunstall
Starring Samuel Bottomley, Rian Gordon, Lewis Gribben, Viraj Juneja, Kate Dickie, Kevin Guthrie, Jonathan Aris, Georgie Glen, Alice Lowe, Brian Pettifer, with James Cosmo and Eddie IzzardMusic by Alex Menzies
Cinematography : Patrick Meller
Edited by Ninian Doff, Ross Hallard
Distributed by Amazon Studios
Release date : March 8, 2019 (South by Southwest), August 7, 2020 (United States)
Running time : 87 minutes

(Source : press release)