Boys from the Blackstuff

(1982)

★ 7.8 IMDb · 18 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1982

Runtime: 50 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Alan Bleasdale

Cast: Бернард Хилл, Michael Angelis, Tom Georgeson, Alan Igbon, Peter Kerrigan, Gary Bleasdale, Джули Уолтерс, Jean Boht, David Fleeshman, David Ross

Plot

Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman and union leader, George Malone. As they struggle to make ends meet in a depressed economy, and to hold together their financially battered families, they are harrassed by the petty bureaucrats of the DHSS. But the lumbering investigational juggernaut is, both comically and tragically, guided by drivers with only a provisional license.