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Dir: Sam Taylor-Wood / UK / 2009 / 97 mins / Cert: 15A

This highly entertaining and witty feature debut from artist Sam Taylor-Wood covers the formative years of music icon, John Lennon.

Aged 15, hungry for experience and desperate to throw off the shackles of his uptight, respectable Aunt Mimi who has raised him since the age of five, John meets his mother—the erratic, alluring Julia—after many years apart. They form an instant bond, which leads to friction between the two women.

The increasingly troubled John starts to escape into music and forms a band with a local lad by the name of Paul McCartney. Just as things start to warm up for him, tragedy strikes and once more John removes Julia from his life. Naturally music plays a significant part and the color palette deliberately reflects the drab 1950s setting of the story.

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After losing his job, Charlie struggles to keep his family together while trying to fight the ever increasing pressures of modern day Ireland. With bills mounting up and a sick daughter to take care of, Charlie must find the strength within himself to keep fighting for his family or he could lose them forever.

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