Once upon a Time in the Midlands
Dek and Shirley live together with 12 year-old Marlene, her daughter by the sexy, delinquent Jimmy who went off into the badlands of Glasgow years ago and hasn’t been heard from since. Decent-but-dull Dek loves Shirley so much that he humiliates her by proposing without warning on national television. Like everyone else Shirley has ever met, Jimmy is watching when she turns Dek down on TV and he returns to town, determined to win her back. Shirley seems destined to succumb to Jimmy’s charms, but he hasn’t reckoned on the obstacles: their daughter Marlene, his sister Carol, her estranged husband Charlie, their sons Emerson and Lake, Carol’s daughter Donna, her boyfriend Donut. Nor could he anticipate the heroic, last-minute challenge from mild-mannered, love-sick Dek.
Artistic & technical sheet
Kathy Burke
Rhys Ifans
Ricky Tomlinson
Robert Carlyle
Shirley Henderson
Screenplay
Paul Fraser, Shane Meadows
Image
Brian Tufano
Sound
Catherine Hodgson
Editing
Peter Beston, Trevor Waite
Music
John Lunn
Set decoration
Crispian Sallis
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