Staying Up

Staying Up

7.0IMDb Score
Released:2002-05-07
Genre:
Duration:30 min
Director:Michael Wadding
Actors:Stephen Tompkinson, Elizabeth Carling, Christopher Fulford, Johnny Vegas, David MacCreedy
Production:Fiction Lab, BBC

Overview:

Set in 1990 on an Air Force base in the mid-Atlantic. Billy is desperate to listen to his team Middlesborough, play Newcastle United. But Billy's quest for diversion masks an unspoken trauma in his past which he is forced to confront.

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