Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 05/24/2005
SubTitles: Espanol/English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DTS/DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Flags: Violence
Distributor/Studio: Tartan Video
Scottish writer and former vocalist for the
punk band
the Skids,
Richard Jobson makes his directorial debut with
16 Years of Alcohol, the stylized
psychological drama based on his own semi-autobiographical novel. Through voice-over narration and various flashback methods, troubled young man
Frankie Mac (
Kevin McKidd) recalls his childhood (played by
Iain De Caestaecker as a boy) growing up in working-class Edinburgh. In the '50s, his father (
Lewis McCloud) was a hard-drinking good-timer and his long-suffering mother (
Lisa May Cooper) eventually gave up on the family. As a teenager in the '70s, the violent
Frankie falls in with a street gang and tries to clean up to impress record store clerk
Helen (
Laura Fraser). After some fights with his old street thug enemy
Miller (
Stuart Sinclair Blyth),
Frankie makes an another attempt to stop drinking at an AA meeting, where he meets
Mary (
Susan Lynch).
~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
