Drama

Bard Entertainments

Barry Crerar

BBC Film

United Kingdom

English

Mark Stanley

Amy Manson

Marli Siu

Anders Hayward

Scott Murray

Caleb Imray

Lisa Livingstone

Stuart Murison

Douglas Russell

Euan Stamper

Alexander Terentyev

Mark Wood

Scott Graham

Simon Tindall

David Arthur

Margaret Matheson

Rosie Crerar

Ciarán Barry

Robbie Allen

Lizzie Francke

Rose Garnett

Wendy Griffin

Ross McKenzie

Carla Stronge

Andy Drummond

Rebecca Gore

Kat Morgan

Bethany Swan

Per Boström

Christer Melén

Cameron Mercer

Joakim Sundström

Martin Kelly

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This is quite an interesting observational piece that goes some way to illustrating the lack of opportunities and activities in small, one-industry, towns. This film is based around Fraserburgh - a town of 13,000-odd folk in the north of Scotland that is home to a fishing fleet but very little else. Mark Stanley is "Finnie" a Fraserburgh lifer who works in a fish processing factory. His son does too, at least until the start of this 24 hour dip into their family lives. His wife works in a hairdressers and they have another younger schoolboy child. Late at night, after a fairly "lively" attempt at a family dinner, "Finnie" borrows his son's car and goes for a bit of a joyride - picking up his son's pregnant ex-girlfriend en route and they race a few local youths then the breakers on the sea wall... anything for an adrenalin rush, it would seem. Unfortunately, we only really get a superficial look at the characters; the frustrations and mundanity of their existence is writ large, but therein lies the film's problem - it is a bit like watching goldfish in a dirty bowl; we see but cannot empathise or really engage. There is lots of pent up anger amongst the family; but also some affection - which neither "Finnie" nor his son "Kid" (Anders Hayward) have a clue how to demonstrate. It is worth watching, but is remarkably unfulfilling and empty.

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