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Distant Voices, Still Lives review by Leni from

Our friends in the north. 26 July 2011
...adio songs brimming with optimism and cheer. Pete Postlethwaite is great, as is Freda Dowie as his stoical wife deperately trying to hold everything together with a kind s... Read customer review

Cider With Rosie on DVD (1998)
Starring: Freda Dowie, Juliet Stevenson, David Troughton
Director: Charles Beeson
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This adaptation of Laurie Lee's novel features the voice of the late author himself as narrator. In 1918 Gloucestershire, young Laurie (Dashiell Reece) grows up in the heart of the countryside, surrounded by his warm and earthy family: Uncle Sid (David Troughton), Uncle Ray (Con O'Neill) and Annie (..read more »

65% from 148 members

Distant Voices, Still Lives on DVD (1988)
Starring: Carl Chase, Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Terence Davies
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Drawing from his family memories, this portrait of working class life in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool is a masterpiece from one of Britain's most gifted filmmakers. Bringing us beauty and terror in equal measure, Davies paints a lyrical portrait of family life that's autobiographical and universally ..read more »

66% from 2,497 members

The Brontes of Haworth - Complete Series (1973)
Starring: Vickery Turner, Rosemary McHale, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Director: Marc Miller
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The complete TV mini-series that dramatises the life of the Bronte sisters, authors of some of the most memorable novels in the literary canon. Written by Christopher Fry, the series explores the everyday lives of the sisters in their home in the small Yorkshire village of Haworth. Charlotte (..read more »

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