Knowing that writer-director Richard Jobson once fronted the acclaimed art-punk band the Skids (remember "Scared to Dance"?) will in no way prepare you for this strikingly accomplished adaptation of his own autobiographical novel. After a fatalistic opening worthy of such noir classics as NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950), the action flashes back to the '60s and the moment when young Frankie (Iain De Caes) realizes the love between his booze-loving, good-time-Charlie dad (Lewis Macleod) and pretty mother (Lisa May Cooper) is a lie: Frankie spots Dad in a back alley with a local bird. It's then that Frankie sneaks his first taste of alcohol, and after his fed-up mother finall...
Released:
2003
Rated:
R
Length:
102 mins