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7.3/10   178 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Julie Rutterford (writer)
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Awards:
Won BAFTA Film Award. Another 4 wins more
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User Reviews:
Devastating portrait of a young girl and her doomed life. more (6 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)
Ashley Thewlis ... Girl
John Slater ... Father
Sue Jaynes ... Mother
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Sarah Patel ... Friend
Jill Regan ... Friend
Kimberly Perkins ... Friend
Jo Midgley ... Shop Assistant
James Brent ... Boy #1
Lee Shepherd ... Boy #2
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jake Slater ... Father
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Directed by
Brian Percival 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Julie Rutterford  writer

Produced by
Janey de Nordwall .... producer
Rebecca Wright .... line producer
 
Cinematography by
Geoff Boyle 
 
Casting by
David Shaw 
 
Visual Effects by
Giles Livesey .... digital film colorist
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Daniel Gadd .... clapper loader
Daniel Lightening .... focus puller
 
Other crew
Gus Crotty .... location assistant
 

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Additional Details

Runtime:
9 min
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Movie Connections:
Edited into Cinema16: British Short Films (2003) (V) more

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4 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
Devastating portrait of a young girl and her doomed life., 2 September 2002
8/10
Author: Havan_IronOak from NYC

Shocking short-film about a young girl who's the product of a broken home and hopeless dreams of being a pop star. Her dad is unemployed and spends his time playing soccer while her mom struggles to make end meet.

One striking feature of this film was the contrast by the girl's fully Americanized rendering of the pop lyrics she sings and the thick Liverpool accent that she uses in everyday speech. (It required me to put on subtitles to understand what was being said)

As sad as the life that she describes is, I was still totally unprepared for the ending.

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