Johnny Jarvis (1983)

[Mark Steels Stockbroker]

Anyone else watching the DVD of this, or remember it originally? I only recall clips on Points Of View about him losing his job and despairing of getting another one.... early 80s were bleak, kids.

FUN FACT: both Ian Sears and Jamie Foreman appeared in the 1986 Brit film Empire State, set amongst the yuppified Docklands version of the 80s.

[smudge1971]

Remember it from 1983/4. I watched it again a year or two ago and it was even better than I remembered. The way the coolness of Johnny and the lack of personality of Lipton gradually swap bodies and Lipton realises that he's still a miserable cunt is excellent. It's a great 'rite of passage' tale of a grim time and place to be a teenager drifting into their twenties.