Valerie Lilley

Children/Madonna and Child/Death and Transfiguration Director Davies confronts his childhood demons in the guise of Liverpudlian Robert Tucker, a man torn between his homosexuality and Catholic faith. (UCLA)

Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone. Part one of "The Terence Davies Trilogy." (anonymous)

It's December 1969 in Watford, England, and Jeremy Sloane is at the end of his rope - literally. His failed attempt to end it all has just joined a growing list of recent setbacks, which include getting sacked from his accounting job and a separation from his wife Janet, who has left to "find herself." The one remaining constant in his life are his evenings at the pub with childhood mates Ross, Reggie and Beans. Although the gang have big plans for the approaching decade, Sloane simply longs for (imdb)

Miranda Richardson stars in this drama, which centers on a trio of friends who are facing the responsibilities that come with being a modern woman of a certain age. (imdb)