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| Jim Broadbent | Arthur Morrison |
| Colin Firth | Blake Morrison |
| Juliet Stevenson | Kim Morrison |
| Gina McKee | Kathy Morrison |
| Matthew Beard | Blake (teen) |
| Sarah Lancashire | Beaty |
| Elaine Cassidy | Sandra |
| Claire Skinner | Gillian Morrison |
| Bradley Johnson | Blake (Age 8) |
| Carey Mulligan | Rachel |
| Tara Berwin | Gillian (younger) |
| Tilly Curtis | Josie |
As poet Blake Morrison visits his dying father, he remembers the feeling of being overshadowed by his gregarious dad. Blake's conflicted memories roam back and forth through the 1950s, the '60s and then the late '80s, the last in which Blake is a married man with a career of his own.
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