Family (1994)★ 8.4/10
- Drama
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Written by: Roddy Doyle
A Dublin family deals with a father's abusive behavior, including theft, adultery, and inappropriate attention towards his daughter, while the mother struggles with alcoholism and the children suffer emotional turmoil.
- Original title
- Family
- Storyline
- This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who's initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo's treatment of mom; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she's frightened and Paula's furious.
- Rating
- 8.4 / 10 · 215
- Companies
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
- Release dates
- GB May 8, 1994
- CA September 14, 1994
- US October 1, 1994
- SE February 8, 1995