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1999 | Color | 98:00

For fifteen-year-old Tom, a war is being waged right at the heart of his seemingly happy family. As he struggles with his emerging sexuality, the tumultuous arrival of a new baby sister, and a move from his beloved London to the lonely Devon countryside, he has no one to turn to for comfort and truth.


Country: Reino Unido
Direction: Roth; Tim
Script: Stuart; Alexander
Production: Radclyffe; Sarah, Linder; Dixie
Photography: McGarvey; Seamus
Sound: Greaves; Dianne, Swanscott; Jason, Greenhorn; Jim, Wilson; Ian
Music: Boswell; Simon
Cast:Winstone; Ray, Belmont; Lara, Ashfield; Kate, O’Sullivan; Aisling, Farrell; Colin, Swinton; Tilda, Cunliffe; Freddie
Art direction: Wakefield; Karen
Participation year at FICM: 2015

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