Impressive film about a Catholic family in 1930's Liverpool. It's like Angela's ashes meets Cinema Paradiso! The Irish aspect is with a family who live nearby - they get accused of working on the cheap, are told to go home, and get hassle from fascists. Most scenes are short but memorable. It's about a kid making his Communion and the father out of work. Every cliché from the 1930s is here: poverty, strikes, rows, priests, unions, fights, pubs, terraced houses, politics, class tensions, and nosey neighbours. Best scene: Hart questions the priest about borrowing money from the Jews for the kids' Communion clothes. More of a quality TV movie than a good feature film. Certainly no classic (the similar Distant voices, still lives is much better) but this movie deserves to be better known.
Title: Liam
Genre: Childhood
New/old: Old
Cinema/DVD: DVD
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