The Tain - Liam MacUistin

All Beginning but no middle and little end

Advantages: Good acting, watchable
Disadvantages: Ending out of nowhere

Stumbled across a showing of this film in Bath. I hadn't heard of it before but faced with a choice of Miss Congeniality or The Last Dance, I would have gone to see this regardless. As a bonus it was written by Jimmy McGovern (who wrote Cracker). The film tells the story of Liam, a young boy with a stutter and his family growing up in Liverpool in the 1930s. It is a time when more and more workers are joining the dole queue but as the film begins Liam's father (Ian Hart) is working and managing to support his wife and three children. His daughter has just started working as a maid for a well off Jewish family while Liam prepares for his first communion, being taught how to avoid hell at his local school. The film is very similar to other period family films (such as Anglea's Ashes) as it focusses on the family, primarily ...

Ork1927 01.04.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Liam (DVD)

Liam's Letter

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and polished wood that bloated my stomach spread up my throat, then behind my stinging eyes and into my head. I had to shake off this internal claustrophobia, get some fresh air. But I didn't want to be alone. Then I saw Clare but barely recognised her. The real Clare wasn't this wreck who played an endless game of charades, murmuring ?Thanks for coming, he?d appreciate it?. I remembered the first time Liam introduced her, or rather showed her off. They'd been together for about a week. I had to forgive him though - she was gorgeous, different from the girls back home. I was happy for him, a bit of stability, hoped it would rub off into the rest of his life. That was eight years ago. The priest came over to me and said something, but his words were cotton wool. I strained "Oh, yeah, thanks". He looked at me and half smiled, patted me ...

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A Fine Single Malt from Tain

Advantages: Smooth so very smooth. Nice Flavour. Hint of Smokiness
Disadvantages: Pricey. Not that widely available.

The biggest selling single malt whisky in its native Scotland happens to be Glenmorangie, 10 year old and this is one of the finest whiskies that I have ever drunk. The distillery is at Tain, Ross-Shire ,far in the North of Scotland, and the elegant swan neck of the distillery still is apparently the tallest to be found in the Highlands. Visitors are very welcome to visit the distillery and Glenmorangie, which was founded in 1843 and now owned by Leith-based Macdonald and Muir ,also have their very own web site. Initially its business was very localized -selling single casks to pubs and hotels in the area between Inverness and Dornoch.Indeed it actually started as a brewery and was later converted into a distillery. Glenmorangie is the Gaelic for "...vale of tranquility...." and this wonderful whisky is matured in American ...

ashford 01.11.2001 (27.01.2002) · Read full review
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