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Distant Voices, Still Lives

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Most Popular • Classics, Drama, PG-13, 01-Jan-1988

Set in a world before Elvis, a Liverpool before the Beatles, Terence Davies' debut feature is a remarkable evocation of working-class family life in the 40s and 50s and a visionary exploration of memory. In a powerful succession of searing vignettes, Davies paints an autobiographical picture of a family dominated by an oppressive patriarch.

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Autobiographies, 1940s, 1950s, Nostalgia
Cast
Freda Dowie Mrs Davies, the mother
Peter Postlethwaite Tommy Davies, the father
Angela Walsh Eileen
Crew
Terence Davies director

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