In Jimmy McGovern's latest comedy-drama-musical, an imprisoned teacher gains respect from fellow convicts by teaching them to sing. Cruel prison guard Stephen Graham is affected by this and ends up smuggling in custard creams to the singing criminals.
If only.. His screenplay is typically dark and pretty depressing, has a nice symmetry - Bean ends up being released the day Grahame goes in for sentencing. Can't help wondering why Bean isn't in an open prison, though. Good acting by these two, and rest of cast:
Hannah Walters and Paddy Rowan (Grahame's wife and son), Brian McCardie (super-criminal), Sue Johnstone, Siobhan Finneran (nun, Downton, Happy Valley), James Nelson-Joyce (bully), Anuerin Barnard, Dean Fagan, Bobby Schofield, Kenin Harvey, Carl MacAninch, Nadine Marshall and Jack McMullen (Bean's wife and son), David Calder, Kadiff Kirwan, Terence Maynard (illiterate prisoner), Michael Socha (This Is England), Anna Madelely (victim's wife; All Creatures, Patrick Melrose, The Crown).
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