Oscar-nominated actress Julie Walters (Mamma Mia Harry Potter) takes on the lead role in a revealing portrait of Mo Mowlam; the powerfully charismatic woman whose no-nonsense approach to politics helped achieve one of the most monumental landmarks in British history the Good Friday Agreement. Mo's warmth passion and unorthodox style made her renowned throughout the country and loved by many. Away from the public gaze she found happiness later in life with husband Jon Norton (David Haig - My Boy Jack) but just months before the pivotal 1997 general election she discovered... she had a brain tumour. Defying medics her brave battle with ill-health was played out on the public stage. A poignant and intimate look at the life of the most popular if controversial Labour politician of a generation as well as an inside account of the extraordinary events which led to peace in Northern Ireland. [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Fresh from her turn as the moralist and fervent campaigner in FILTH: THE MARY WHITEHOUSE STORY, the irrepressibly talented Julie Walters channels another fascinating public figure in MO. This revealing portrait of the late Labour politician Mo Mowlam, chronicles the role she played in the signing of the Good Friday Peace Agreement, her relationship with husband Jon Norton (David Haig, MY BOY JACK), as well as her private battle with cancer. Age Rating 15
Julie Walters stars in this Channel 4 biopic based on the life and career of late politician Mo Mowlam. The film charts Mowlam's rise to prominence in Tony Blair's New Labour government and her role in helping to bring the Good Friday peace agreement for Northern Ireland to fruition in 1998, while recovering from treatment for a brain tumour first diagnosed in 1997. Mowlam died in 2005 aged just 55.
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