Rage (1999)

Set in contemporary London, three inner-city friends discover themselves after pursuing desperate measures to cut their own hip-hop record. In spite of the ups and downs that continually spin around them, they not only explore their individual selves, but also the bonds of their friendship.

Date of release
1999-09-16
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Drama, Crime, Music
Director
Newton I. Aduaka

Casting

Interesting facts

Rage is a 1999 feature film directed and written by Nigerian-born Newton Aduaka. Rage is his debut feature. Fraser Ayres stars as Jamie, also known as Rage, a mixed-race, angry youth living on a grim council estate in South London. He is part of a rap trio with his two friends Godwin and Thomas. Looking to escape through their music, they turn to crime in order to finance making a record.

Production

Rage is the debut feature of Newton Aduaka, the Nigerian-born film writer and director. The film was produced by Granite FilmWorks, the production company set up by Aduaka and Maria Elena L'Abbate to make independent films, the first of which was the critically acclaimed short On the Edge.

Aduaka wrote the script for Rage in 1996. The first draft took four days to write all 120 pages.

Shooting began on 7 September 1998. Four days earlier, the principal financier behind the film decided to pull out, meaning that much of the 40-strong film crew had to be let go before the shoot had begun. The shoot lasted ten days, 16 hours a day but with only a little money coming in, the production remained under pressure. The complexity of the shoot was increased by the ambition of the project.

At the end of the tenth day of principal photography, the line producer resigned. Aduaka and his co-producer called a meeting of the crew at which the cameraman, art director, costume designer sound recordist and actors agreed to continue. However, production broke down and it was necessary to raise fresh finance and hire new equipment. A member of the crew and one of the lead actors decided to invest.

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