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7.6/10   721 votes
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Director:
Terence Davies
Writer:
Terence Davies (writer)
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Release Date:
17 February 1989 (Finland) more
Genre:
Drama more
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Awards:
9 wins & 6 nominations more
NewsDesk:
British Critics Vote 'Apocalypse Now' Number One
 (From WENN. 8 November 2002)

User Comments:
The most powerfully innovative film of the past quarter-century. more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Lorraine Ashbourne ... Maisie
Jean Boht ... Aunty Nell
Carl Chase ... Uncle Ted
Chris Darwin ... Red
Sally Davies ... Eileen as a child
Frances Dell ... Margie
Freda Dowie ... Mother
Anne Dyson ... Granny
Susan Flanagan ... Maisie as a child
Marie Jelliman
Debi Jones ... Micky
Matthew Long ... Mr. Spaull
Vincent Maguire ... George
Antonia Mallen ... Rose

Pete Postlethwaite ... Father
Andrew Schofield ... Les
Michael Starke ... Dave
Angela Walsh ... Eileen
Nathan Walsh ... Tony as a child
Dean Williams ... Tony
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Additional Details

Runtime:
85 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby

Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:
Featured in A Personal History of British Cinema by Stephen Frears (1997) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
There's a Man Goin' Round more

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7 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
The most powerfully innovative film of the past quarter-century., 18 March 2002
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Author: Evan Wm. Cameron from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Among powerful films of the past quarter-century, none surpass this one for elegant and innovative design. Unfortunately, it will remain, it appears, a singular achievement, even among the works of Davies, for nothing he has since done approaches its power. The inability to comprehend how and why a film works, although now an all-too-common failing among filmmakers, is in Davies's case uniquely sad, for the promise of this film was unprecedented.

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