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Chicken Town

2025 · 90 min

A breezy, offbeat comedy with a warm heart, following quirky characters in a dead-end town as they stumble through a low-stakes caper.

Genres
Comedy, Drama, Crime
Tagline
Shed full of weed, town full of dopes.
Overview
In a dead-end town in the East of England, a young man is released from prison after serving time for a crime he didn't commit. He returns home looking for answers only to become embroiled in a scheme to sell a crop of cannabis grown by an elderly neighbour on his allotment.

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • crime
  • class
  • redemption
  • family
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour7
Realism7
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight4

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Genres
comedy, drama, crime
Directed by
Richard Bracewell
Written by
Patrick Dalton, Richard Bracewell
Starring
Ethaniel Davy, Ramy Ben Fredj, Graham Fellows, Amelie Pyecroft Davies, Everett Gaskin, Hugo Carter, Laurence Rickard, Alistair Green
Cinematography
Tansy Simpson
Runtime
90 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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