16 Years of Alcohol (2003)
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Cast
as Frankie
as Helen
as Mary
as Director
as Jake
as AA Meeting Woman
as Female Actor
as Frankie's Father
as Frankie's Mother
as Male Actor
as Miller
as Kill
as Budgie
as Fighting Couple Woman
as Fighting Couple Man
as Dad's Lover
as Rival Gang Boy
as Rival Gang Boy
as Barman
as Record Shop Assistant
as Brewery Woman
as Brewery Woman
as Clothes Shop Assistant
as Art Critic
as Art Critic's Friend
as Referee
as Parent's Friend
as Helen's Friend
as Gang Member
Critic Reviews for 16 Years of Alcohol
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Eventually the movie drowns in words.
It's a carefully made movie, evocatively filmed and intelligently thought out by the director and his cast.
The freely associative, poetic tone signals this isn't going to be just another grungy British pic about young malcontents and petty crime.
Despite reams of maudlin narration, McKidd's powerful performance as a conflicted man makes this beautifully shot low-budget feature worth checking out.
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.
This Scottish memoir of inebriation and sobriety leans heavily on the hurt of booze and rarely on the high.
Audience Reviews for 16 Years of Alcohol
[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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