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1994 Certificate 15
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When an apparently racially motivated murder in Manchester turns out not to be the work of hate-mongering skinheads, the police call in forensic psychologist Eddie Fitzgerald to solve the case before anyone else falls victim. Read more

Starring Robbie Coltrane, Barbara Flynn, Geraldine Somerville, Christopher Eccleston
Director Julian Jarrold
Genres Television

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Cracker - To Be A Somebody

When an apparently racially motivated murder in Manchester turns out not to be the work of hate-mongering skinheads, the police call in forensic psychologist Eddie Fitzgerald to solve the case before anyone else falls victim.

Starring Robbie Coltrane, Barbara Flynn, Geraldine Somerville, Christopher Eccleston, Ricky Tomlinson, Robert Carlyle
Director Julian Jarrold
Studio CINEMA CLUB
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 28 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Television
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 12 May 2003
Production year: 1994
Format DVD

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  • 7 out of 7 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    A masterpiece of seething rage.

    Albie Kinsella - driven mad with grief by the death of his father begins a one man campaign to avenge the Hillsborough disaster - 96 murders for each death.

    This is a truely terrifying look at the nature of violence and the media in early 90s Britain. Robert Carlyle is brilliant as the alternatively frightening and sympathetic Albie and Christopher Ecclestons death scene is still genuinely upsetting all these years later. Meanwhile Robbie Coltrane holds centre stage as the shambolic alcoholic Fitz and the whole thing is held together by a kind of rough humour. This was probably the most important episode of Cracker and although Albies methods obviously can't be condoned the stories questioning of how the media represent certain people is still challenging today. Watch this and realise how shallow most on screen violence really is.

      • A customer from Essex
      • Posted 03 Aug 2004 22:04

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    CRACKER

    ONLY ONE THING TO SAY....GENIUS, WELL WORTH WATCHING

      • peter rumsey from LEEDS, ENGLAND
      • Posted 14 Apr 2005 17:29

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