Morphine and Dolly Mixtures · 1991

Morphine and Dolly Mixtures

Karl Francis · 93 min · United Kingdom

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.

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Production companies

BBC

Cast

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  Patrick Bergin

  Terence O'Farrell

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  Joanna Griffiths

  Caroline O'Farrell

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  Sue Jones-Davies

  Irene O'Farrell

• Sue Roderick

  Ruby

• Gwenllian Davies

  Gran

• Sian Merrick

  Miss Bowden