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Green Street is a 2005 film, starring Elijah Wood and Charlie Hunnam, about football hooliganism in England. It was directed by Lexi Alexander. In the U.S., the film has the title Green Street Hooligans, and in the U.K. it has the title Green Street, after initially being called Hooligans. In other countries, it has the title 'Football Hooligans'. An American college boy falls in with a violent English football firm and is morally transformed by their commitment to each other.

The film is named after Green Street, a street in the London Borough of Newham where the Boleyn Ground (more commonly known as Upton Park) is located. This is the home of West Ham United, a team notorious in the past for their fans' hooliganism. The film has provoked a largely negative response in the borough, with many comments in the local paper, the Newham Recorder, about how they felt that trust had been betrayed and that the area was no longer plagued by football violence.

Although not a remake, the premise is very similar to the 1995 British-made film ID, in which the unlikely inductee to the world of football violence is an undercover police officer. Unlike ID which used fictional names, Green Street uses real club names and locations.

The film has been making the rounds of film festivals, including most recently the Virginia Film Festival under the theme of In/Justice. The film's tagline is "Stand Your Ground."

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