Kidulthood, which is due to be released on March 3rd, aspires to be a powerful and distubing film that “takes you deep into London’s unseen underbelly and delivers a gritty, hard-hitting reflection of what life is really like for 21st century teenagers.”

For 15-year-old Trife, a boy from West Londodn, life is a day-to-day struggle. Trapped between the worlds of his school friends, the girl he loves, and the draw of his powerful and dangerous uncle, Trife must choose between the path he knows is right and a life of guns, drugs and violence that he has come to know only too well.

When a class mate’s suicide leaves Trife and his crew, Mooney and Jay, with the day off school it seems as though circles of violence may have finally come to a tragic conclusion - but in a world where sex is currency, drugs are easy, and violence is a way of life, trouble can never be too far around the corner

Which all sounds very worthy and, according to The Melon Farmers, the film been compared by some critics to youth classics like Trainspotting and Quadrophenia.

But The Sun isn’t happy and has decided to whip up another controversy.

Campaigners fear Kidulthood, which features scenes where yobs film attacks, glamorises teenage violence.

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Lucy Cope, who founded Mothers Against Guns after her son was shot dead in 2002, last night led calls for Kidulthood to be banned.

She said: “I felt sick to the pit of my stomach when I heard about that man being killed by happy slappers. This film should be stopped — it glamorises violence. Youngsters will want to be like them.”

The low-budget movie features suicide, teenage pregnancy, bullying and drug use. It stars Noel Clarke, who played Billie Piper’s boyfriend in Dr Who, and is due for release on March 3.

Kidulthood has been rated 15

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