Lilies (2007)★ 8.1/10
- Drama
Directed by: Ferdinand Fairfax, Brian Kelly, David Moore, Roger Goldby
Written by: Heidi Thomas, Kate Gartside, Jonathan Harvey
Three Catholic sisters navigate love, poverty and family bonds in post-WWI Liverpool docklands, while their widowed father struggles to raise his children in their terraced home.
- Original title
- Lilies
- Storyline
- Tough, sexy, funny and heartbreaking, Lillies details the lives of Iris, May and Ruby Moss - Catholic sisters coming of age in a dockland terraced house. Familial love sustains them, and their fortunes are bound to those of their brother and their father. Set in the years immediately following the First World War, Lilies pulls no punches in its storytelling. It depicts a sensual, vivid and sometimes savage universe - where life is lived on a knife-edge of poverty, fuelled by various kinds of love. Dadda, the family's charismatic and mercurial father married very young, is now widowed, and his struggle to nurture his unruly children proves both moving and comic.
- Rating
- 8.1 / 10 · 844
- Companies
- World Productions, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Acorn Media Group, Acorn TV, BBC Northern Ireland
- Release dates
- GB January 12, 2007
- US January 12, 2007
- AU November 16, 2009
- SE May 16, 2010