Jimmy McGovern

Jimmy McGovern

Nacimiento : 1949-01-01, Liverpool, England

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Born in Liverpool in September, 1949, James Stanley "Jimmy" McGovern is an English screenwriter and producer. He created the television series Cracker, a popular and critical success in the UK, for which he received two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America.

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Jimmy McGovern

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Anthony
Writer
In July 2005, black teenager Anthony Walker was murdered by two white men in an unprovoked racist attack in a Liverpool park. He was just 18 years old. This film tells the story of how this talented young man's life might have turned out.
Care
Executive Producer
Jenny (Sheridan Smith) es una madre soltera que se ve obligar a criar en solitario a sus dos hijos después de ser abandonada por su marido. Aunque al principio cuenta con la ayuda de su madre, Mary, su vida cambia radicalmente cuando ésta cae enferma, con el consiguiente gasto económico que conlleva pagar sus tratamientos.
Care
Writer
Jenny (Sheridan Smith) es una madre soltera que se ve obligar a criar en solitario a sus dos hijos después de ser abandonada por su marido. Aunque al principio cuenta con la ayuda de su madre, Mary, su vida cambia radicalmente cuando ésta cae enferma, con el consiguiente gasto económico que conlleva pagar sus tratamientos.
Reg
Writer
In June 2003, Reg Keys and his wife Sally return to their home in the Welsh countryside. As they switch on the TV to hear six military policemen have been murdered in Iraq, two men arrive bearing the terrible news that their son, Tom, was among them.
Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain
Himself
Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain shows the most exciting and uncompromising British band in years sticking two fingers up to the zeitgeist and articulating the rage and desperation of those without a voice in austerity Britain. The film follows Sleaford Mods on a tour of the UK in the run up to the 2015 General Election, visiting the neglected, broken down and boarded up parts of the country that many would prefer to ignore. Part band doc, part look at the state of the nation, the documentary features individuals and communities attempting to find hope among the ruins, against a blistering soundtrack by Sleaford Mods.
Redfern Now: Promise Me
Creative Producer
Two young women are raped on their way home. The story follows the lives of both women and the different ways they deal with the crime.
Common
Writer
Tras dar una vuelta en coche a unos amigos, Johnjo O'Shea, de 17 años, es acusado como cómplice en un asesinato premeditado.
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
Self
Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash discuss the creation of The Royle Family, with a look behind the scenes at the production of the show and interviews with the cast.
Sunday
Writer
Sunday tells the story of an infamous day in Derry, North of Ireland and how the events of that day were subsequently covered up by the British Government of the time. On Sunday 30th January 1972 a peaceful civil rights march against internment (imprisonment without trial), organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) ended with 13 marchers shot dead and 15 wounded. It became known throughout the world as Bloody Sunday. Told primarily from the perspective of the Derry community, juxtaposed with the British Army/state's preparations and reaction to the day, Sunday communicates the forensic and emotional truth of what happened
Liam
Writer
A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has a job as a maid to the Jewish family that owns the closed shipyard. The lady of that house is having an affair, and Teresa becomes an accomplice. Liam stutters terribly, especially when troubled. Dad comes under the sway of the Fascists, who blame cheap Irish labor and Jewish owners. A Molotov cocktail brings things to a head.
Dockers: Writing the Wrongs
Himself
The compelling tale of how a group of sacked dockers got together with scriptwriter Jimmy McGovern and novelist Irvine Welsh to turn their unique story into a film. In September 1995, five men were sacked for walking off the job when their overtime agreement was ditched. Dockers: Writing The Wrongs tells how the dockers spent a year producing the script based on their own experiences of the dramatic two and a half year dispute.
Dockers
Writer
Jimmy McGovern's depiction of the mid 90s Liverpool dockers strike. Featuring script contributions from Irvine Welsh and the real dockers themselves
Heart
Writer
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
Hillsborough
Football Dad
Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.
Hillsborough
Writer
Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.
Go Now
Writer
Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a wide sweep of jagged emotions, and in the process gives himself and those who love him the strength to carry on.
Priest (Sacerdote)
Writer
En la Irlanda actual, el padre Greg Pilkington, un joven sacerdote católico, llega a un pueblo para sustituir al antiguo párroco, recientemente fallecido. Pronto tendrá que afrontar dos espinosos problemas: el del secreto de la confesión, aun cuando se trate de delitos denunciables, y el de su homosexualidad, que mantiene en secreto.
Gas and Candles
Writer
Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats.
Traitors
Writer
A play about the gunpowder plot written from a new angle by Jimmy McGovern.
Needle
Writer
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.