The Long Day Closes Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 85 mins
- Year produced:
- 1992
- Director:
- Terence Davies
- Cast:
- Marjorie Yates
- Lee McCormack
- James Wilder
This follow-up to British director Terence Davies’ Distant Voices, Still Lives is a powerful and poetic portrait of one boy’s life as he grows up in the Liverpool of the 1950s. The family of 11-year-old Bud don’t have much money, and he also has a tough time at the Catholic school where he is bullied by the other pupils and mistreated by the teachers. But he does find a refuge in the “picture shows” (the movies) – and using snippets of dialogue from such classic films of the time as The Ladykillers and The Magnificent Ambersons, The Long Day Closes becomes a beautiful and haunting tribute to the wonders of film as seen from a child’s point of view.
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