Looking After Jo Jo (1998)
- Directed by
- John Mackenzie
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 4 episodes
- Rated
- 18
- Rating
- 7.7 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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