Andrew Boulton

상해의 아편왕, 월터(Walter Faraday: 폴 프리만 분)에게 이용당하여 부상당한 병사들의 마취제로 사용하는 줄 알고 아편을 찾아나서는 순진한 처녀 테틀록(Gloria Tatlock: 마돈나 분)은 떠돌이 청년 웨이지(Glendon Wasey: 숀 펜 분)를 만나 함께 마약을 찾아 나선다. 상해 암흑가의 두목과 경찰 간부 역시 이 아편을 노리고 두사람을 끈질기게 추적한다. 여러 차례 위기를 넘기면서 웨이지와 태틀록을 이용하여 추적자들을 따돌린 월터는 마지막 순간에는 두사람마저 속이고 아편을 독차지 하려다가 오히려 자기꾀에 스스로 넘어가 허탕을 치고 웨이지와 테틀록만이 남아서 사랑을 확인하는데...

A couple of old friends drown their sorrows together while reveling in the naivety of a young newly-wed.

A window cleaner fancies a sausage roll, but all is not well in the sausage roll factory.

A boy goes to see his probation officer.

A man relentlessly bombards another man with small talk, while the other man tries to fend for himself while using crutches.

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.

Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens' Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two weeks gets his check from the dole. There are no jobs. His best mate Alan joins the army to fix tanks and is sent to Belfast to quell Catholics. At a disco, Mick meets Karen, who works at a shoe shop and lives with her recently-separated mom. Karen misses her dad. She offers Mick emotional stability and a route to adulthood; Alan pitches the army. Does Mick have a future?

Shortly after Margaret Thatcher's election as prime minister, Ken Loach returned to documentary, convinced that the long gestation of feature films made them useless as instruments of topical social comment. But his trade union documentary A Question of Leadership, intended for national ITV broadcast, was criticised by the Independent Broadcasting Authority for its explicitly anti-government stance. It was eventually screened a year later, exclusively in the Midlands (tx. 13/8/1981). Believing that the then-new Channel 4 would be more amenable to politicised documentaries, Loach proposed the four-part Questions of Leadership (1983), a wider-ranging study of the trade union movement - but on viewing the completed programmes' strong criticism of leading trade unionists, an anxious Channel 4 shortened the series to two parts and proposed screening a 'balancing' documentary by a different filmmaker, before scrapping the broadcast altogether.

Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler 's life.