Flashbacks of a Fool

Year: 2008

Runtime: 110 mins

Language: English

Director: Baillie Walsh

DramaMoving relationship storiesEmotional teen coming-of-age storiesTouching and sentimental family storiesPowerful stories of heartbreak and suffering

An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. When his childhood best friend, Boots, dies, Joe is thrust into an extended flashback to a seaside town in 1970s Britain, revisiting the relationships and choices that shaped his present.

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