The Likely Lads (1976)

Directed by

Michael Tuchner

Genre

comedy film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two old friends, Bob and Terry, reunite in their hometown. They catch up on old times and deal with the changes in their lives. A comedy about friendship and growing older.

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What happens

The Likely Lads is a 1976 British comedy film directed by Michael Tuchner, starring James Bolam and Rodney Bewes. It is a spin-off from Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, although it has the same title as the earlier 1960s British television series The Likely Lads, of which Whatever was the sequel. The screenplay is by the scriptwriters of the television show, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais; and the principal roles of Bob and Terry, as well as those of Bob's wife Thelma and Terry's sister Audrey, are played by the original television cast. This film was the final screen appearance of Bewes and Bolam together. At the time of the film's release, the two had, according to Bewes, fallen out over something he had said in an interview with the press and never spoken to each other again, but when Bewes died in November 2017, Bolam denied there was a rift between the two men. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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