Looking After Jo Jo (1998)

Directed by

John Mackenzie

Genre

drama

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Rated

18

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A petty thief tries to become a drug dealer in 1980s Edinburgh. He lives on a tough housing estate during the heroin and AIDS crisis.

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What happens

Looking After Jo Jo is a 1998 BBC Scotland television drama starring Robert Carlyle. John Joe "Jo Jo" McCann is petty thief turned drug dealer in 1980's Edinburgh, surviving in a bleak housing estate and aspiring to the trappings of a successful criminal. Unfortunately for him, and for most of the other characters in the mini-series, it is a time of heroin addiction and AIDS. It is filmed and set in and around the North Sighthill housing estate, with several scenes also filmed in Niddrie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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