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ABIGAIL'S PARTY ABIGAIL'S PARTY (PG)
A TV play based on the Hampstead Theatre production. Beverly has invited her new neighbours, Angela and Tony, over for drinks. She has also asked her divorced neighbour, Sue, because Sue's fifteen year-old daughter, Abigail, was holding a party in their house. Beverly's husband, Lawrence comes home ...
   
ALL OR NOTHING ALL OR NOTHING (18)
Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemployed and aggressive. The joy has gone out of Phil's and Penny's life,...
   
HAPPY GO LUCKY HAPPY GO LUCKY (15)
Poppy is a 30-year-old Londoner with a bright outlook on life. She loves her job, she loves her friends, she loves her freedom. Mike Leigh's new film follows her over a few weeks one spring as she learns to drive and embarks on a new romance. “Mike Leigh and his leading actress Sally Hawkins triumph...
   
LIFE IS SWEET LIFE IS SWEET (15)
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend's new restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects,...
   
MEAN TIME MEAN TIME (15)
An odd film, primarily looking at how the dole affects the underclass in Britain. Tim Roth stars as Colin, a slow and possibly retarded man living with his parents and brother in a housing project. He and his sarcastic manipulative brother still behave like teenagers, living with their parents, hara...
   
MEANTIME MEANTIME (15)
An odd film, primarily looking at how the dole affects the underclass in Britain. Tim Roth stars as Colin, a slow and possibly retarded man living with his parents and brother in a housing project. He and his sarcastic manipulative brother still behave like teenagers, living with their parents, hara...
   
VERA DRAKE VERA DRAKE (12)
Set in 1950, this multiple-award-winning film centres on a devoted wife and mother whose working class family is in the dark about her secret career as an abortionist. Starring Alex Kelly, Daniel Mays, Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen. Directed by Mike Leigh. “Aside from the performances, whi...
   
   

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