Stephen Frears' follow-up to High Fidelity covers much the same territory as Alan Parker's Angela's Ashes with its story of a seven-year-old boy (Anthony Borrows) growing up amid grinding poverty in '30s Liverpool. But where Parker was happy sentimentalising his hero's coming of age (moonglow glistening in every puddle, dead infants in angelic repose), writer Jimmy McGovern places his protagonist's loss of innocence within a wider socio-political context.
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