R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only

1983

Action / Drama

14
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 81 81

social worker social commentary school racism juvenile delinquent shoplifting

Plot summary

An isolated, overweight girl with a penchant for shoplifting, gets pushed from pillar to post as the authorities struggle to know what to do with her.

Director

Jane Howell Photo
Jane Howell

Top cast

Alec Wallis Photo
Alec Wallis as Social Services Office - Gateman
Arthur Nightingale Photo
Arthur Nightingale as School - Caretaker
Paul McDowell Photo
Paul McDowell as Social Services Office - Barry Clarke
Herbert Norville Photo
Herbert Norville as
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559.01 MB
968*720
English 2.0
NR
24 fps
1 hr 18 min
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1.17 GB
1440*1072
English 2.0
NR
24 fps
1 hr 18 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by DanTheMan2150AD 8 / 10

A state of incoherent vulnerability

Really Here in Name Only, a term applied to pupils who continually bunked off from school, represents life beyond the school gates, reflecting the concerns about the eventual fate of those without qualifications. Its opening sequence underlines the effects of bullying and delinquent behaviour on other pupils and the teaching staff, but its not just about the rights of the teacher, as the film is more of an exploration of how a teenager, Angie, simply fails to have a voice when she becomes enmeshed in the web of adults using their positions of power within the education system, social services and police and judiciary to direct the route that her life will take. Leland's theme of children requiring "bugger all" from the education system is reiterated here, victims of an unsympathetic system and, in Angie's case, institutional racism, the result of the muticulturalist project's inability to facilitate basic human rights and equality. Uncomfortably directed and fantastically performed, Really Here in Name Only is all told with quiet bitterness and biting understatement and like its focus stripped of identity, individuality and reduced to a state of incoherent vulnerability.
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