The Long Day Closes Movie Review 1992

It's 1956 Liverpool and 11-year-old Bud (McCormack) is part of a working-class Catholic family who longs to escape from his humdrum life. And how? By going to the movies of course and filling his head with pop songs. Nostalgic view of family life filled with sweet, small everyday moments set in a dreary postwar England. Sequel to Davies's also autobiographical film "Distant Voices, Still Lives."

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 84 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Coming of Age, Family Drama, Period Piece: 1950s, Great Britain, At the Movies

Screenplay

Terence Davies

Cast

Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, Anthony Watson, Ayse Owens

Cinematography

Michael Coulter

Director

Terence Davies

Producer

Olivia Stewart, Ben Gibson, Colin MacCabe, British Film Institute, Film Four International, Sony Pictures Classics