16 Years of Alcohol (18)

Director: Richard Jobson
Starring: Kevin McKidd, Laura Fraser, Ewan Bremner
UK, 2003, 1 hour 42 minutes

Drink deep and enjoy this affectionate elegy for wasted youth, thwarted ambitions and misdirected lives. As a young boy, Frankie Mac watches his father lose himself in alcohol. As a teenager, he's leader of a gang that live for music, drink and violence. As a man, he tries to change but can't escape the shadow of his past. A gritty tale of one man's journey this is a hypnotic experience packed with ravishing visuals, haunted by its melancholy narration, and set to a smashing seventies soundtrack.

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