It's 1974 and fifteen-year-old Danny is our guide through the ups and downs of life with the Baker family. Dad Fred, known to all and sundry as Spud', is a proud south London docker with a penchant for rackets, fiddles and schemes, hopefully nice and tasty' ones. Wife Bet loves him deeply but longs for the family to go straight', and do daft things like pay taxes and put money in the electricity meter instead of always trying to scam it. With eldest daughter Sharon's wedding looming, the docks facing closure and a switch to the dreaded containerisation' putting thousands of dockers out of work, times are challenging. So too are Danny's attempts to get closer to the opposite sex. Full of humour, warmth and drama, Cradle To Grave is based on actual events and characters.
As BOYS ON FILM reaches the end of its teenage years we take a look at those unique boys; the boys who make the world a better and more exciting place. The boys who will go one step further and always impress. The boys who are not always what they seem
England Is Mine is the story of the making of Morrissey - front man of legendary band The Smiths and one of British music's most influential figures. In 1970's Manchester, Steven Morrissey (Jack Lowden Dunkirk, A United Kingdom, '71), an introverted, uncompromising teenager, finds himself frustrated with his working-class existence. With dreams of a successful music career being dampened by his run-of-the-mill job at the local tax office, Steven finds solace in the city's underground gig scene where he meets Linder Sterling (Jessica Brown Findlay Downton Abbey, The Riot Club) an intelligent, self-assured artist who encourages him to make his ideas of superstardom a reality.
Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a sixteen-year-old, extrovert from the outskirts of Wolverhampton with raging hormones and gigantic dreams. Even though she loves her big, boisterous family, Johanna yearns to get out and make a name for herself - which she does, reinventing herself as revered and feared music critic, Dolly Wilde. As she slaughters her way to greater and greater success, the lines between Johanna Morrigan and Dolly Wilde begin to haze. She has finally figured out how to build a girl but is this the girl she wanted to build? Based on Caitlin Moran's book of the same name, HOW TO BUILD A GIRL is an irreverent coming of age comedy about what it's really like to be a girl. Extras: Building The Girl My Life In Wolverhampton The God Wall
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