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Movie Info

Frankie (Kevin McKidd) looks back on his wasted life as he is beaten senseless by a group of thugs in an alleyway. As a child, Frankie lived under the influence of his drunken, philandering father. As a teenager, he fell in with a gang of skinheads who unleashed their pent-up rage across the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. As an adult, however, he seeks help and becomes involved with two women -- an art student (Laura Fraser) and a fellow addict (Susan Lynch) -- who may prove to be his salvation.

Rating:

R (Alcohol Use)
Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Richard Jobson
Producer:

Hamish McAlpine, Richard Jobson, Mark Burton
Writer:

Richard Jobson
Release Date (Streaming):

Oct 29, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA):

$7.5K
Runtime:

1h 37m

Cast & Crew

Kevin McKidd
Frankie

Laura Fraser
Helen

Susan Lynch
Mary

Stuart Sinclair Blyth
Miller

Jim Carter
Director

Ewen Bremner
Jake

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Critic Reviews for 16 Years of Alcohol

All Critics (15) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (3)

Eventually the movie drowns in words.

April 29, 2005 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a carefully made movie, evocatively filmed and intelligently thought out by the director and his cast.

April 21, 2005 | Rating: B

Eleanor Ringel Cater
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The freely associative, poetic tone signals this isn't going to be just another grungy British pic about young malcontents and petty crime.

March 18, 2005 | Full Review…

Derek Elley
Variety
Despite reams of maudlin narration, McKidd's powerful performance as a conflicted man makes this beautifully shot low-budget feature worth checking out.

March 18, 2005 | Rating: 2/4

Lou Lumenick
New York Post
The film has a poetic pulse, its ups and downs accompanied by some smartly chosen pop songs, a seductive original score and McKidd's husky voice-over narration.

March 18, 2005 | Rating: 3/4

Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
This Scottish memoir of inebriation and sobriety leans heavily on the hurt of booze and rarely on the high.

March 17, 2005 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Ned Martel
New York Times
The frequent narration is a nonstop string of clichs, platitudes, and truisms that should have been flung out the cutting-room window.

March 24, 2005 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
The voice-over is a touch pretentious and a few scenes play like acting exercises, but the film is filled with a real sense of hopeless poignancy.

March 18, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Ken Fox
TV Guide
'Hello, my name is Frankie. And I am a violent man.'

May 1, 2004 | Full Review…

Martin Scribbs
Mixed Reviews
Actually, it's Trainspotting without the predilection for 'junk' and dead babies who crawl on the ceiling.

March 4, 2004 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Oz
eFilmCritic.com
Moving, lyrical and ultimately devastating.

January 6, 2004 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Jason Anderson
eye WEEKLY
Richard Jobson's debut is full of abiding images that linger long after the final credits.

January 6, 2004 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film

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Audience Reviews for 16 Years of Alcohol

May 24, 2006

[font=Century Gothic]Portentously narrated, "16 Years of Alcohol" is a thinly plotted movie about Frankie(Kevin McKidd), a young man who is part of a gang of four thugs who spend most of their waking hours roaming the streets and bars. Frankie is a one-dimensional character whose single distinctive quality is his explosive anger but no particular cause is ever given for this.(He grew up in a dysfunctional home but the situation was not abusive.) No political or socio-economic factors are even mentioned. In the end, this movie just seems like an inferior knock-off of "A Clockwork Orange" which it references via a movie poster.[/font]

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