Ariztical Entertainment
has captured the domestic home entertainment distribution rights to director
Rikki Beadle Blair’s film adaption of his own critically-praised stage play, Bashment. Aug. 20 has been designated as the DVD
release date.
Using many of the cast
members from the original award-winning play, this British filmmaker takes a
no-holds-barred look at London’s underground music culture that can be both
racist and extremely violent, especially for the subset of gay rap/reggae
artists who are challenged not only by society in general, but by their not so
enlightened contemporaries.
Into to this mix comes
J.J. (Joel Dommett — The Edge of Love, Signs
of Life, Skins, etc.), a gay white artist with a taste for the
Ragga-Hip-Hop culture. He clearly doesn’t
belong and soon finds himself and his friend, Orlando (Marcus Kai), the targets
of a particularly brutal collection of thugs who call themselves the Illford
Illmaniacs.
The sweet and innocent Orlando
is confronted and beaten into a comatose state and, to J.J., what should have
been an open-and-shut case of attempted murder before the courts turns out to
be nothing more than a slap on the wrists and some minor jail time for the
thugs.
With their return to
society imminent, J.J. must examine more closely the culture that has claimed
him and be prepared to do battle with those who detest him for both who he is …
and what he is not!
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