16 Years of Alcohol - by Richard Jobson (2003)

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16 Years of Alcohol - by Richard Jobson (2003)

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Scottish writer and former vocalist for the punk band the Skids, Richard Jobson makes his directorial debut with 16 Years of Alcohol, the stylized psychological drama based on his own semi-autobiographical novel. Through voice-over narration and various flashback methods, troubled young man Frankie Mac recalls his childhood (played by Iain De Caestaecker as a boy) growing up in working-class Edinburgh. In the '50s, his father was a hard-drinking good-timer and his long-suffering mother eventually gave up on the family. As a teenager in the '70s, the violent Frankie falls in with a street gang and tries to clean up to impress record store clerk Helen. After some fights with his old street thug enemy Miller, Frankie makes an another attempt to stop drinking at an AA meeting, where he meets Mary.

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IMDB info
Stars: Kevin McKidd, Laura Fraser and Susan Lynch
Production land: UK
Run time: ~102 min