Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (2005)

Original title

Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky

Directed by

Simon Curtis

Genre

drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 3 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three working class Londoners in the 1920s have their lives intersect in a pub and the streets around it. A barmaid, a barman, and a prostitute each struggle with loneliness and unfulfilled desires.

melancholicslow-burnintimatebleaksocially observantatmosphericrestrainedgritty

What happens

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky is a 2005 BBC television serial depicting the intersecting lives of three working-class Londoners in the 1920s. The series is based on the trilogy 20,000 Streets Under the Sky by British author Patrick Hamilton. It stars Sally Hawkins, Zoë Tapper and Bryan Dick. The three-part drama was shown on BBC Four, accompanied by the documentary Words, Whisky and Women, and was also released on DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray. The series was released in the United States on BBC America on 11 February 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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