The Stranger
2022
Dad's Dead (2002)
December 20, 20027mEN
5.8
16 votes
Overview
Our narrator looks fondly back at his childhood in Liverpool and the antics of his best friend Johnno. Well known for being a showman and a keen one for joking and the like, Johnno starts to change for the worse after he announced that his father has died.
Director
Chris ShepherdWriter
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
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Production Companies
Animate!Finetake ProductionsChannel 4 TelevisionArts Council of EnglandSlinky Pictures
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6.0Regaling us with memories of his Liverpudlian childhood, this tells us of a man who's relationship with his best friend ''Jonno'' ended up having quite a bearing on his own life. These two lads were joined at the hip and were always larking around together, but as they grew older "Jonno" moved on from their harmless antics with some Flake 99s to much more brutish behaviour with pigeons and cats; a whopping great lie and then finally to an incident that saw the latter man become innocently incarcerated for a fairly heinous crime. That's perhaps what is most striking about this rather depressing…
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