Movie Description:
NEDS, or so-called Non-Educated Delinquents, takes place in the gritty and often violent world of 1970s Glasgow. On the brink of adolescence,young John McGill is a bright and sensitive boy, eager tolearn and full of promise. Butthe cards are stacked againsthim. Most of the adults in hislife fail him in one way or another. Hisfather is a drunken, violent bully and his teachers- punishing John for the "sins" of his older brother, Benny- aredown on him from the start. With no one willing to give him thechance he desperately needs, John takes to the savage life of the streets with avengeance. NEDS is not only a story of lost hope, it is a story of survival by any means necessary.