About
Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.
Budget
$500K
Cast
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Phillip Mawdsley
Robert Tucker
R
Robin Hooper
Robert Tucker (aged 23)
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Nick Stringer
Father
V
Valerie Lilley
Mother
L
Linda Beckett
Neighbour
T
Trevor Eve
Man in Shower
E
Elizabeth Estensen
Nurse
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Phillip Joseph
2nd Teacher
K
Kate Fahy
Neighbour
B
Bill Maxwell
Doctor
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Malcolm Hughes
Man in Bedroom
The Terence Davies Trilogy
A trilogy of short films tell the life of Robert Tucker. "Children" (1976) looks at his birth and formative at an austere boy's school. The bleak environment is not aided by the loveless, violent do...
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