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Morphine and Dolly Mixtures
A girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father. This unrelieved melodrama examines the nature of a child's experience of a domineering, volatile alcoholic parent. It is based on an autobiographical account by Carol-Ann Courtney. At first, the girl has some diversion from her intense and frightening relationship with her father in the person of her maternal grandmother, but that outlet is soon closed when her father bans her from their home.
Top Billed Cast
Patrick Bergin Terence O'Farrell
Joanna Griffiths Caroline O'Farrell
Sue Jones-Davies Irene O'Farrell
Sue Roderick Ruby
Gwenllian Davies Gran
Sian Merrick Miss Bowden
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