Human Traffic

A group of British youths try to escape their pointless, hum-drum lives with weekends of drug-fueled debauchery in the comedy Human Traffic. Jip (John Simm) works at a shop selling jeans, and his best friend Koop (Shaun Parkes) is an aspiring hip-hop artist who has a day job at a record store. Nina ...more

A host of American features, from Go to Groove, have tried with varying degrees of success to portray the agony and the, ahem, ecstasy of the peculiar cultural experience that is a rave. Although this independent British feature is set in that country's more mainstream, club-based dance-music milieu, it comes closer than any film since Trainspotting to painting an accurate picture of the pleasures, motivations, and repercussions of underground dance-and-drug culture. Young director Justin ...more