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Born in Liverpool in September, 1949, James Stanley "Jimmy" McGovern is an English screenwriter and producer. He created the television series Cracker, a popular and critical success in the UK, for which he received two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America.
Total trailers found: 20
16 September 1995
Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together.
24 March 1995
The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.
09 April 2015
Two young women are raped on their way home. The story follows the lives of both women and the different ways they deal with the crime.
24 July 2025
The Mitchell family deal with the devastating aftermath of an act of sexual abuse committed by a member of their own family who, after two years, is about to leave prison.
28 October 1996
A British businessman operating in Hong Kong has feelings of inferiority and turns to murder when he faces bankruptcy.
28 January 2002
Sunday tells the story of an infamous day in Derry, North of Ireland and how the events of that day were subsequently covered up by the British Government of the time.
11 September 1996
Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.
12 September 1990
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
27 July 2020
In July 2005, black teenager Anthony Walker was murdered by two white men in an unprovoked racist attack in a Liverpool park.
06 July 2014
When 17-year-old Johnjo gives his cousin and his friends a lift, he finds himself implicated in a stabbing.
10 July 1999
Jimmy McGovern's depiction of the mid 90s Liverpool dockers strike. Featuring script contributions fs
05 November 1990
A play about the gunpowder plot written from a new angle by Jimmy McGovern.
01 August 1991
Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats.
09 December 2018
Jenny, a single mother raising two daughters after her husband leaves, is aided by her widowed mother, Mary.
23 January 2001
A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression.
11 July 1999
The compelling tale of how a group of sacked dockers got together with scriptwriter Jimmy McGovern and novelist Irvine Welsh to turn their unique story into a film.
10 November 2010
Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash discuss the creation of The Royle Family, with a look behind the scenes at the production of the show and interviews with the cast.
01 January 1999
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
06 June 2016
In June 2003, Reg Keys and his wife Sally return to their home in the Welsh countryside. As they switch on the TV to hear six military policemen have been murdered in Iraq, two men arrive bearing the terrible news that their son, Tom, was among them.
03 October 2015
Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain shows the most exciting and uncompromising British band in years sticking two fingers up to the zeitgeist and articulating the rage and desperation of those without a voice in austerity Britain.
