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Blackwater Lightship, The (2004) (TV Film) |
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Set in
Ireland.
A young mother, Helen, discovers that her brother, Declan, is in
hospital and that he is gay and has AIDS. He says he wants to stay
at their grandmother's house where they had happy memories of
childhood. Flashbacks portray earlier times.
Helen decides to stay at her grandmother's to help looking after
Declan leaving her husband to care for their children. Then their
widowed mother arrives. Helen is estranged from her mother and most
of the film is concerned with tensions in the family. But while
Declan is dying the family is reconciled.
A very good cast, even Angela Lansbury is rescued from the confines
of "Murder She Wrote". Lansbury is English as is Gina McKee, Dianne
Wiest and Sam Robards are American presumably because this is a U.S.
film.
More a story about families than AIDS. |
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