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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Jake is brought into the world when his father loses his job and so his mother Julie goes out to work while his father Jamie stays at home to look after Jake As he grows up Jake loves his father but finds himself begrudging his mother as she is hardly ever there However matters get worse when Jake has to cope with the arrival of baby brother and he starts to imagine how things would be without him and Jamie is forewarned by a fortune teller that he will die soon after he starts an affair Age Rating 18

The complete miniseries from acclaimed playwright Alan Bleasdale. Parenthood is not what Jamie (Robert Lindsay) and Julie Diadoni (Julie Walters) expected and son Jake is born at a time of domestic tension. Jamie - a handsome failed musician - loses his job and Julie becomes the full time breadwinner, while Jamie takes on the role of house husband. Jake grows up loving his father but resenting his often absent mother. A new pregnancy is the final straw. Bewildered and lost Jake is threatened by the new arrival, he fantasises about the life he should be having without his baby brother. Soon the fantasies turn into reality. Meanwhile events take a tragic twist as Jamie has his fortune told and is warned that he will have an affair, but only shortly before he dies! Drawn inexorably towards his fate, he falls in love with mysterious stranger Kate (Amanda Mealing) and embarks on an affair. But as events draw to their dramatic conclusions, both Julie and Jamie realise just how dangerous it is to play games with fate.