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The Runaway Details

2011 Certificate 18
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Cathy Connor and Eamonn Docherty are brought up together in the East End. As the daughter of a prostitute, Madge, Cathy's life is difficult, especially when everyone assumes that she will be following in her mother's footsteps. But when Cathy is forced to protect Madge from a violent attack by a punter it changes her life .. Read more

Starring Keith Allen, Burn Gorman, Alan Cumming, Ken Stott
Director David Richards
Genres Drama, Television

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Cathy Connor and Eamonn Docherty are brought up together in the East End. As the daughter of a prostitute, Madge, Cathy's life is difficult, especially when everyone assumes that she will be following in her mother's footsteps. But when Cathy is forced to protect Madge from a violent attack by a punter it changes her life forever. Cathy is taken into care but she suffers institutional abuse which leaves her with no choice but to run away. She ends up destitute, on the streets of Soho. Desrae, a transvestite, unexpectedly comes to her rescue. Meanwhile, Eamonn joins Dixon's firm and rises up the ranks of the East End criminal underworld. He gets involved with his boss's daughter but in a moment of violent rage, kills her. Eamonn flees to New York to escape retribution where he gains a reputation as a ruthless villain with a specialism for sourcing weaponry. Adapted from Martina Cole's best-selling novel this is an explosive action-packed thriller with two star crossed lovers at its centre.

Starring Keith Allen, Burn Gorman, Alan Cumming, Ken Stott
Director David Richards
Studio SPIRIT ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 48 mins
Blu-ray: 4 hrs 40 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Drama, Television
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Released Production year: 2011

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DVD: 09 May 2011
Blu-ray: 16 May 2011

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    • Delivering a punch to the solar plexus in almost every scene, Martina Cole's relentlessly brutal story about a pair of childhood sweethearts caught up in the violence of 1960s East End London is light years from the gentility of MIDSOMER MURDERS and clinical forensics of a CSI.

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    • Rated - 5.0 stars  

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      Addictive viewing

      Excellent, well acted and written and production value is amazing. Very gritty just as you think it cant get worse it does, addictive viewing I thought.

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    • Rated - 5.0 stars  

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      Martina cole sure knows how to do a good drama..watched six episodes over two evenings...Stunningly powerfull!!!

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    Cumming: 'Dressing in drag was torture'

    • WENN Newsdesk
    • 07 Apr 2011

    Alan Cumming is urging men everywhere to try dressing in drag after playing a transvestite on TV and gaining a new-found respect for the "torture" women endure to look good. Cumming used "smelly" creams to get rid of his body hair and donned make-up and tight dresses to play Desrae, a transvestite, on TV series The Runaway. Now the X-Men 2 star is convinced more men should get in touch with their feminine sides too - so they can understand the lengths women go to to impress. He tells Fern... Read more

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      Compelling six-part drama THE RUNAWAY is based on the gritty crime novel by best-selling author Martina Cole. Set in both London's Soho and in New York City, the serial spans the 1960s and 1970s, following the interweaving stories of Cathy Connor (Joanna Vanderham) and Eamonn Docherty (Jack O'...
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      Cathy Connor and Eamonn Docherty are brought up together in the East End. As the daughter of a prostitute, Madge, Cathy's life is difficult, especially when everyone assumes that she will be following in her mother's footsteps. But when Cathy is forced to protect Madge from a violent attack by a ...

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