Liam

 

Liam 2000

• Director: Stephen Frears
• Seen by this director: Victoria & Abdul, Philomena, Tamara Drewe, The Queen, Mrs Henderson Presents, Dirty Pretty Things, High Fidelity, The Van, Mary Reilly, The Snapper, The Grifters, Prick Up Your Ears, My Beautiful Laundromat
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Anthony Borrows, Ian Hart, Claire Hackett, David Hart, Megan Burns, Anne Reid, Russell Dixon, Jane Gurnett
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in
• Ian Hart – Mary Queen of Scots, Escape from Pretoria, Breakfast on Pluto, Tristram Shandy, Finding Neverland, Harry Potter, Born Romantic, AberdeenLongitude, Michael Collins
• Claire Hackett – Line of Duty
• Anne Reid – many
• Jane Gurnett – The Other Boleyn Girl
• Why? I remember it as good
• Seen: Once before. Now 5 September 2024 

Little Liam (Borrows) is the youngest in a Catholic working class family in Liverpool during the Depression. Unemployment, pawn shops, socialism, fascism, hell and damnation religion are all viewed through this child’s eyes.

Grim, complex and very well acted. 

4* of 5