Marie Jelliman Movies
- 1988
- PG13
Set in 1940s England, Distant Voices/Still Lives is a compassionate look at a radically dysfunctional family. The son and his mother must endure the casual and overt cruelties of the bull-necked father. The ongoing abuse takes its toll in the form of failed marriages and misguided attempts at seeking security outside the family unit. As was the case with his earlier short subject trilogy (The Children, Madonna and Child, Death and Transfiguration), director Terence Davies based much of the material on his own life, combining rheumy-eyed cynicism with soft-edged nostalgia (the musical track, drawn from popular wartime songs, is particularly evocative). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, (more)
- 1986
- R
Bob (George Costigan) and his wife Michelle (Lesley Sharp) hire Sue (Michelle Holmes) and Rita (Siobhan Finneran) to baby-sit in this sex comedy. Bob is distracted by the two plump teens while giving them a ride home, and Rita and Sue take turns having sex with Bob in the car, later comparing his manhood to "a frozen sausage." Bob feels like a big man and continues seeing the two tarts. Michelle leaves Bob when she hears about him dancing scandalously with the two teens at a steamy nightclub. Rita moves in with Bob, while Sue enters into an unsatisfying relationship with Aslam (Ghir Kulvindar). The two women realize they were happy to share Bob and make plans to continue the menage a trois. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran, (more)
