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Movie
Orphans
Synopsis
Following his Cannes award-winning performance in Ken Loach's My Name is Joe, Scottish actor Peter Mullan made his feature script and directorial debut with this British dark comedy-drama about four adult siblings on the eve of their mother's funeral in Glasgow. Eldest son Thomas (Gary Lewis) offers a tribute to her in a local pub, but his brother Michael (Douglas Henshall) is stabbed during a brawl at the bar, prompting third brother John (Stephen Cole) to seek vengeance. Michael evades medical treatment, trying to hold out until the next day in order to make a claim for workers compensation. Thomas leaves to join sister Sheila (Rosemarie Stevenson), who has cerebral palsy, in a night-long chapel vigil. The four attempt to reunite after they are separated when the full fury of a violent storm hits the town. Shown at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast
- Douglas Henshall
- Gary Lewis
- Rosemarie Stevenson
- Stephen McCole
- Ann Swan
- Gilbert Martin
- Jan Wilson
- Lenny Mullan
- Malcolm Shields
- June Brogan
- Paul Doonan
- Linda Cuthbert
- Frank Gallagher
- Alex Norton
- Laura O'Donnell
- Dave Anderson
- John Comerford
- Deirdre Davis
- Debbie Walsh
- Lee-Ann McCran
- Donna Chalmer
- Seamus Ball
- Fraiser Campbell
- Paul McNamara
- Laurie Ventry
- Maureen Carr
- Steven Singleton
- Kate Brailsford
- Stephen Docherty
- Judith A. Williams
- Eric Barlow
- Frances Carrigan
- Sheila Donald
- Robert Carr
- Luka Kennedy
- Catherine Connell
- Martha Leishman
- Jim Twaddale
- Joel Strachan
- Dorothy Jane Stewart
- Tam White
- Louise Dunn
- Helen Devon
- Vanya Eadie
- Stuart Brisdon
- Sandy Dworniak
- Colin Monie
- Frances Connell
- Doreen Jones
- Roy Field
- Peter Mullan
- Paddy Higson
- Grant Scott Cameron
- Campbell Gordon
- Anastasia Shirley
- Lynn Aitken
- Nick Powell