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Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.
Director:
Clio Barnard
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Lorraine Dunbar
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Lisa Thompson
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The Girl
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Young Lorraine
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Max Stafford-Clark /
The Father
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Kate Rutter | ... |
The Mother
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Liam Price | ... |
Billy
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Robert Haythorne | ... |
Fred
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Josh Brown | ... |
Policeman
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Gary Whitaker | ... |
Himself
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Jamie Timlin | ... |
Himself
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Yousaf
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Young David
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Kathryn Pogson | ... |
Pamela Dunbar
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Jonathan Jaynes | ... |
David Dunbar
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Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.
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playwright | foster parent | domestic violence | death | family relationships |Certificate:
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
25 April 2010 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
I odos Arbor See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$3,159 (USA) (6 May 2011)Gross:
$21,268 (USA) (26 August 2011)Company Credits
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By using actors who are lip-syncing interviews of actual people in Andrea Dunbar's life, this film pushes the documentary genre completely into the dramatic cinema field, with very interesting and moving results. Mix in stagings of her plays in the actual British housing projects where they were set, and vintage TV footage, you get a fascinating very creative mix.
It's also a very enlightening portrait of a woman who used art and the written word to pull herself out of the slums, but failed to change as a human being, basically living the life of the housing project trash that she wrote about, abusing her children as a result.
A fresh and very cinematic take on the documentary form. Check it out.