Release
Date: August 29,
2003 (NY, LA)
Studio: Sony
Pictures Classics
Director:
Shane Meadows
Screenwriter:
Shane Meadows,
Paul Fraser
Starring:
Robert Carlyle,
Rhys Ifans, Kathy
Burke, Shirley
Henderson, Ricky
Tomlinson,
Vanessa Feltz, Vic
Reeves, Bob
Mortimer, Finn
Atkins, Eliot Otis
Brown Walters,
Ryan Bruce,
Andrew Shim,
Kelly Thresher
Genre: Action,
Crime, Romance
MPAA
Rating: R (for
language)
Official
Website:
SonyClassics.com/
OnceUpon

Plot Summary: Dek and Shirley live together with 12 year-old Marlene, her
daughter by the sexy, delinquent Jimmy who went off into the badlands of
Glasgow years ago and hasn't been heard from since. Decent-but-dull Dek
loves Shirley so much that he humiliates her by proposing without warning on
national television. Like everyone else Shirley has ever met, Jimmy is watching
when she turns Dek down on TV and he returns to town, determined to win her
back. Shirley seems destined to succumb to Jimmy's charms, but he hasn't
reckoned on the obstacles: their daughter Marlene, his sister Carol, her
estranged husband Charlie, their sons Emerson and Lake, Carol's daughter
Donna, her boyfriend Donut. Nor could he anticipate the heroic, last-minute
challenge from mild-mannered, love-sick Dek.

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

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