Liam
Release Date:
September 21, 2001
Studio: Lions Gate Films
Director: Stephen Frears
Screenwriter:
Jimmy McGovern
Starring: Ian Hart, Claire Hackett, Anthony Burrows, David Hart, Anne Reid, Megan Burns, Maxine Berry, Arnold Brown
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating:
R (for some nudity and language)
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Plot Summary: In the 1930s, Britain was between wars and on the verge of depression. Family homes were rented, pubs were smoke-filled dens and streetlights were minimal. For seven year
old, Liam (Burrows), growing up against the bleak and gritty backdrop of the Irish Catholic quarter of Liverpool, along with his older brother and sister, is a daily struggle. While Liam is at
school being terrorized by the Catholic priest and school teacher his brother ( Hart) is working at the shipyards to help support the family while Teresa (Burns), his sister, is sent to clean for
a wealthy Jewish family and finds herself an unwilling participant in her employer's adulterous affair. Despite the hardships of the times, the family attempts to provide a light in the darkness.
Liam's mother (Hackett) is caring and devout, fighting to hold her family together. His father (Ian Hart) is a responsible working man, proud to be employed when so many others are not. But hard
times have hit the Liverpool Docks and once Liam's father loses his job, the family is sent into intractable poverty. Helpless, embittered and determined to find someone to blame, he joins the
local Fascist Party with tragic consequences. Trailer:
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