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31 January 1968 (USA)
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A love story about a girl, the man she is living for, and the man she is living with.
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A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. She marries and has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison...
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
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Set in 60's London. Working class girl's desperate voyage through relationships
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Carol White | ... | Joy | |
| John Bindon | ... | Tom | |
| Queenie Watts | ... | Aunt Emm | |
| Kate Williams | ... | Beryl | |
| Laurie Asprey | |||
| James Beckett | ... | Tom's mate | |
| Ray Barron | ... | Customer in Pub | |
| Hilda Barry | ... | Customer in Pub | |
| Ken Campbell | (as Kenneth Campbell) | ||
| Ron Clarke | |||
| Ellis Dale | ... | Solicitor | |
| Gladys Dawson | ... | Bet | |
| Terry Duggan | ... | 2nd Prisoner | |
| Winnie Holman | ... | Woman in Park | |
| Rose Hiller | ... | Customer in Hairdresser's |
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101 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 (video rating) (1988) |
UK:X (original rating) (cut) |
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First film of John Bindon.
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Colours
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One of the best of the 'kitchen-sinks'. Fantastic views of London and invaluable snippets of working class life of the 60's. Loach's eye seems to capture everything, yet makes no judgment - a taste of things to come. As with 'Kes', 'Riff-raff' and 'Sweet Sixteen', it serves as a cinematic social history of Britain. Carol White is completely convincing, you love her, fancy her, want to take care of her, but hold your head at her self-destructive decisions and still follow her in some vain hope. Well backed up by Terence Stamp, ( fresh off 'The collector', also catch 'The Hit' ) and a plethora of English faces ( all looking very young ). Pefectly set to Donovan's dulcet tones. Stamp sings 'Yellow is the color', in a lovely scene, ending with him saying, " Getting better, ain't I " ( song also used in 'The rules of Attraction' - I think ) Watch Carol Whites screen mum getting ready to 'go out and get a bloke', putting on her false eye-lashes to the sound of 'Rosie' on the radio - priceless. A treasure for anyone who was around at the time and a reminder of how good life is now in England. Incidentally Soderburgh used clips from 'Poor cow' in 'The Limey'.