I.D. (1995 film)

I.D.
Directed byPhilip Davis
Screenplay byVincent O'Connell
Story byJames Bannon
Produced bySally Hibbin
StarringReece Dinsdale
Warren Clarke
Sean Pertwee
Richard Graham
Perry Fenwick
Philip Glenister
Saskia Reeves
Claire Skinner
Lee Ross
CinematographyThomas Mauch
Edited byInge Behrens
Music byWill Gregory
Production
companies
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
BBC Films
Parallax Pictures
Metropolis Filmproduktion
Hamburg Film Fund
European Co-Production Fund
Distributed byPolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Release date
  • 15 May 1995 (1995-05-15)
Running time
107 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Germany
LanguageEnglish

I.D. is a 1995 film made by BBC Films about football hooliganism, directed by Philip Davis, written by Vincent O'Connell, and starring Reece Dinsdale, Sean Pertwee and Warren Clarke. It is set in 1988 in the Shadwell area of London, England and is a story about a group of Metropolitan Police officers who are sent undercover to infiltrate a gang of dangerous football hooligans.

Although set in London, a lot of the film was filmed in South Yorkshire, in particular Rotherham and Sheffield. Millmoor stadium in Rotherham served as Shadwell Town's fictional home "The Kennel". The tagline is "When you go undercover, remember one thing... Who you are." The true events that inspired the movie are chronicled in the 2013 book Running with the Firm written by former undercover detective James Bannon. The film has a cult following.[1] In 2016, twenty one years after the original the film was released, it received a sequel named ID2: Shadwell Army.

  1. ^ "Top 10 Football Hooligan Movies of All Time". February 2020.