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Family (1994)
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Overview
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie’s thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who’s initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo’s treatment of mum; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she’s frightened and Paula’s furious.
Length 190 minutes
Actors
Sean McGinley | Ger Ryan | Neilí Conroy | Barry Ward | Gemma Butterly | Jake Williams | Des McAleer | Pauline McLynn | Vinnie McCabe | Donna Dent | David Gorry | Lorcan Cranitch | Martin Murphy | John Cronin | Darren Kenny | Honor Heffernan | Andrew Connolly | Judith Ryan | Tom Hickey | David Carey | Lynne Kinlon | Eamonn Hunt | Michael Liebman