16 Years of Alcohol (2003) on Netflix
Frankie is a violent alcoholic in Edinburgh. The story starts with his troubled childhood, in a home where his parents' behavior creates doubts that stay with him.
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Plot summary
The film opens with a small group of men beating Frankie. The rest of the story is a flashback to that point, told in three stages, and the first of them is a troubled childhood in a home where his parents' behavior creates doubts that stay with him. Frankie's character is partly drawn from the man who wrote the novel and from that man's brother.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 16 Years of Alcohol (2003)
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- Kevin McKidd stars as Frankie, a violent alcoholic who is partially based on Richard Jobson, and on Jobson's brother, rather than being invented for the screen.
- 16 Years of Alcohol was Richard Jobson's first directorial effort, after a career as a television presenter on BSkyB and VH-1 and as vocalist for the 1970s punk rock band The Skids.
