A son tattoos his mom's name on his arm. She is NOT happy.
Les is an aimless young man, unemployed and still living with his mother. He decides to give her a present - her name tattooed on his arm…
Acting
Marjorie Yates' silent devastation says everything.
Direction
Haggard captures British working-class dread with uncomfortable precision.
Director
Piers Haggard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a ITV Playhouse production, part of Britain's golden age of single-drama television that produced works like 'The Wednesday Play'.
Made during Thatcher's Britain, the film captures the specific humiliation of young male unemployment that defined early 1980s working-class cinema.
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