Orphans (1998)

Directed by

Peter Mullan

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

18

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 40 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four adult siblings gather for their mother's wake in a working-class Glasgow suburb. Over the course of one night each of them confronts a personal crisis, revealing the family's buried resentments and grief.

darkly comicmelancholicgrittycharacter-drivenemotionalrawslow-burnwry

What happens

Orphans is a 1998 Scottish black comedy film written and directed by Peter Mullan and starring Douglas Henshall, Gary Lewis and Rosemarie Stevenson. This was the first full-length film directed by Mullan, who later won a Best Actor award at Cannes for My Name is Joe, and who went on to direct The Magdalene Sisters and Neds. He has said that the film is not autobiographical, but that he wrote the film shortly after the death of his mother, and that each of the four main characters represent an element of what he was feeling at the time. The film was funded by Channel 4 Films, the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund, and the Glasgow Film Fund. The soundtrack includes music by Craig Armstrong, and Billy Connolly singing Mairi's Wedding and two songs he wrote for the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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