Boys from the Blackstuff

Year: 1000

Runtime: 250 mins

Language: English

Director: Philip Saville

Drama

Alan Bleasdale’s five‑part series follows the unemployed Liverpool tarmac workers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their mentor George Malone, a retired longshoreman and union leader. In a depressed 1980s Britain they struggle to keep families afloat while battling petty DHSS bureaucrats, as the welfare juggernaut is run by officials who barely possess a provisional licence, mixing bleak tragedy with dark humour.

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