Moya Brady

A love story - a young man for an older woman and his best friend and his Chevrolet. Jake is a romantic with a vision. Ringe is his whiplash wild best mate. Their lives in a small northern town are bleak with unemployment and domestic wrangles.

Mike Leigh’s first international sensation stars Alison Steadmank, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, and Jane Horrocks in this invigorating, intimate portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London. Melancholy and funny by turns, Leigh and his brilliant cast create a vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams carry enormous weight.