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Wasteman 2025

Directed by Cal McMau · 91 mins · 1,880 views

3.7 Letterboxd 3.74(59,190)
Ratings A M J A _ T J R ⋆ D

Synopsis

Taylor's hopes for a fresh start post-parole are jeopardised by cellmate Dee's arrival. As Dee takes Taylor under his wing, a vicious attack tests their bond, forcing Taylor to choose between protecting Dee and his own chances at freedom.

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Reviews (13)

  1. A
    anthony 8 月 23, 2026

    this guys eyes are way too enchanting to be a gangster

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    marizabeeza 8 月 23, 2026

    (noticeably aroused) what an awful awful man

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    Josiah Cooper 8 月 23, 2026

    Invest in your David Jonsson stocks because that man is incredible. The film completely flows through him and is accompanied by a loud but brilliant Tom Blyth performance. I haven’t seen many prison dramas but this one was excellent and highlights the troubles of UK prisons and the corruption that takes places.

    1,293 12
  4. A
    Alex Remy 8 月 23, 2026

    you can’t fake the excitement of getting an air fryer

    1,133 1
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    _modino 8 月 23, 2026

    Tom Blyth says ‘suck your mum’. What a time to be alive

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    TVSRJ 8 月 23, 2026

    That’s really put me off going to prison.

    1,459 2
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    James Chapman 8 月 23, 2026

    This prison wasn’t anything like the one in Paddington 2

    2,058 2
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    rena 8 月 23, 2026

    tom blyth sat 3 rows behind me and i made direct eye contact with him after i saw his dick on the big screen

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  9. ⋆

    i think i had a panic attack (complimentary)

    1,009 1
  10. D
    dais 8 月 23, 2026

    can’t escape the British public’s air fryer obsession, even in prison

    2,421 7
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    Alice 8 月 23, 2026

    I wanna know what happened to the guy in the washing machine

    709 4
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    JoshuaCaine 8 月 23, 2026

    Dude, just put David Jonsson in everything, man. He’s definitely becoming one of those actors that you would watch a film solely for the fact that he’s in it. Generational talent.

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  13. C
    CinemaSerf 3 月 6, 2026

    “Taylor” (David Jonsson) has been told that early release might be in the offing if he can keep his nose clean for a few more weeks in prison. He generally keeps himself to himself, and offers the floor’s drug pedlars a short back and sides now and again in return for a supply of pills. When the newly arrived “Dee” (Tom Blyth) is put into his cell, the pair quickly seem to strike up a sort of friendship as the enterprising newbie sets up a shop trading everything from chocolate to drugs. Needless to say, the established traders don’t take kindly to his new business and so set about restoring their preferred equilibrium. Whilst that might work for them, though, it puts a great and perilous strain on “Taylor” whose chances of parole could well be compromised by the behaviour of his now very angry and vengeful cell-mate. This is a quickly paced and authentic looking prison drama that shows us a dog-eat-dog world at it’s most violent. The prison officers are plentiful enough but seem incapable of stemming the regular drone deliveries or of stopping the gang warfare that prevails amongst inmates for whom law and order is defined more by a survival of the fittest mentality. Jonsson offers us a calm and measured character who is understated and ostensibly just biding his time til he can rejoin his son; Blyth on the other hand presents a much more blatantly aggressive and manipulative character and Cal McCau manages to blend the two together convincingly as this story heads towards a denouement that I felt clever, unexpected and really quite fitting. It’s one of those films that showcases jail as little more than a zoo for society’s undesirables, but this time there is a man with some semblance of integrity and shrewdness behind the bars who is playing a game of his own – and it’s well worth ninety minutes.

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D David Jonsson Taylor
T Tom Blyth Dee
A Alex Hassell Paul
N Neil Linpow Robby
P Paul Hilton Browning
C Corin Silva Gaz
L Layton Blake Maxi
J Jack Barker Cook up Prisoner
F Fred Muthui Prisoner in Cell
L Lunga Skosana Nurse
R Robert Rhodes Scrawny Prisoner
K Keaton Ancona-Francis Stu
C Cole Martin Adam
Director Cal McMau
Writer Eoin Doran, Hunter Andrews
Producer Sophia Gibber, Myles Payne, Hayley Williams
Executive Producer Philip Barantini, David Jonsson, Samantha Beddoe, Stephen Kelliher, Sophie Green, Cal McMau, Sam Williams, Hunter Andrews, Sonny Gill, David Staniland, Tim Macready, Marie-Claire Benson, Emma Berkofsky
Editor James A. Demetriou, Ryan Morrison
Original Music Forest Swords
Sound James Drake, Jules Woods, Paul Paragon, Simon Trundle, Joe Morley, Harry Barnes
Special Effects Tom Tuohey, Neil Gawthrop, Arthur Janeway
Stunts Arran Topham, Levan Doran, Paul Joseph, Eddy Beckett, Will Deville, Ryan Palmer, Richard Leggett, Rashid Phoenix, Doren John Farmer
Synopsis
Taylor's hopes for a fresh start post-parole are jeopardised by cellmate Dee's arrival. As Dee takes Taylor under his wing, a vicious attack tests their bond, forcing Taylor to choose between protecting Dee and his own chances at freedom.
Director
Cal McMau
Writer
Eoin Doran, Hunter Andrews
Studio
Bankside Films, Hoopsa Films, Agile Films, It's All Made Up Productions
Country
UK
Language
English
Year
2025
Runtime
91 mins

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