certificate, as was the case with  Sweet Sixteen. It was argued, however, that this would prevent the  people who could most closely identify with the characters in the  film from going to see it, and that such language was much more  commonly used, and therefore less offensive, in the north of the UK,  where the film was set. The London based censors, however, stuck to  their guns, although the local authority who cover the area where  the film was shot, Inverclyde, utilized their cinema licensing  powers to overrule this, and awarded the film a 15