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Cinematronic by Michael Snyder
DVD
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  director

Stephen Frears

cast

Ian Hart, Anthony Borrows

year

2001

extras

Closed caption; trailer.

rating rating cinematronic
  Not one of the best motion pictures from UK director Stephen Frears. ("My Beautiful Laundrette," "The Grifters," and "High Fidelity" head that esteemed list.) Still, his view of one working-class household's travails in Liverpool, England during the 1930s is a quality venture. Most of the events of the film are seen from the perspective of the title character, a somber little boy (Anthony Borrows) with a nervous stutter. Liam is the youngest child of a dour, recently unemployed hothead (Ian Hart) and his long-suffering wife. Even away from home, the kid is surrounded by an oppressive environment — out-of-work locals drink their troubles away in the pub, neighbors bicker with one another, a strict Catholic-school teacher threatens her students with eternal damnation, etc. The bulk of the movie is a sketchy tour of Liam's world. But when his older sister goes to work for a rich Jewish family right when Liam's dad starts to consider joining the Fascist movement, melodrama begins to swamp earthy social realism.  
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