Paisley, Scotland, in 1957. Three likely lads look forward to the staff dance at the local carpet factory where they work
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Robin Laing as Phil McCann
Russell Barr as George 'Spanky' Farrell
Bill Gardiner as Hector McKenzie
Louise Berry as Lucille Bentley
Julie Wilson Nimmo as Bernadette Rooney
Duncan Ross as Alan Downie
Moray Hunter as Jack Hogg
David O'Hara as Terry Skinnedar
Anna Massey as Miss Elsie Walkinshaw
Barbara Rafferty as Mrs. McCann
Ford Kiernan as Male Orderly
Jim Boyce as Plainclothes Policeman
Isi Metzstein as Old Mr. Rubenstein
Tom Watson as Willie Curry
John Byrne Writer
John Byrne Director
Seamus McGarvey Director of Photography
Simon Relph Producer
Ann Skinner Executive Producer
Jack Bruce Original Music Composer
John MacDonnell Editor
Gail Stevens Casting
Luana Hanson Production Design
David Warren Art Direction
Jacqui Mallett Makeup Artist
Helen Cannon Makeup Artist
Peter Brayham Stunt Coordinator
Lee Walters Gaffer
United Kingdom 28 August 1997
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1997:
21 March 1997
Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours.
08 August 1997
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter.
05 January 1997
From the vaults of Penthouse Video comes never-before-seen footage so erotic, so provocative, that only now can it finally be released.
09 July 1997
Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.
20 December 1997
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale.
16 March 1997
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties.
13 June 1997
Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus.
11 September 1997
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
01 February 1997
Documentary about the life and works of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini.
12 July 1997
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure.
31 October 1997
A film about one woman's personal freedom and the price she pays to keep it.
02 July 1997
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black.
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