Word: costigan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same for Rita, Sue and Bob Too. The former (Siobhan Finneran and Michelle Holmes) baby-sit for the latter (George Costigan). When he drives them home after work, they chipperly take turns putting out for him. A minimum of romantic spirit and a maximum of haste mark these encounters. Monosyllabically written by Andrea Dunbar, directed with documentary flatness by Alan Clarke, this movie achieves a cinematic rarity: a perfect lack of grace. And thus a perfect match of style and subject. If we believed these figures were capable of rising above themselves and their drab surroundings, we would probably...