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Green Street Hooligans is a 2005 film, starring Elijah Wood and Charlie Hunnam, about football hooliganism in England. In the U.S., the film has the title in the U.K.. 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 Newham where the Boleyn Ground, home to West Ham United, a team notorious in the past for their fans' hooliganism, is. 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 12 and that the area was no longer plagued by football violence.

The film has been making the rounds of film festivals, including most recently the Virginia Film Festival under the theme of In