Morphine and Dolly Mixtures

A girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father. This unrelieved melodrama examines the nature of a child's experience of a domineering, volatile alcoholic parent. It is based on an autobiographical account by Carol-Ann Courtney. At first, the girl has some diversion from her intense and frightening relationship with her father in the person of her maternal grandmother, but that outlet is soon closed when her father bans her from their home.

• Release date
• March 10, 1991
• Runtime
• 93 min
• Genres
• Drama, TV Movie
• Director
• Karl Francis

Cast

Patrick Bergin Terence O'Farrell Joanna Griffiths Caroline O'Farrell Sue Jones-Davies Irene O'Farrell

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Sue Roderick Ruby

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Gwenllian Davies Gran

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Sian Merrick Miss Bowden