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Nick, a construction worker with a passion for soccer, meets Karen one night at a pub. The relationship quickly becomes serious, and the two move in together. Only then does Nick’s disease begin to assert itself. It starts slowly, with minor symptoms: double vision, numbness of the hands, and a lack of bladder control. Nick goes for tests and is diagnosed to have multiple sclerosis. Sunk in frustration and self-pity, Nick frequently lashes out at Karen, torn between wanting her to leave him alone in his misery and needing her to help him.
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Direction: Michael Winterbottom
Script: Paul Henry Powell, Jimmy McGovern
Cinematography: Daf Hobson
Editing: Trevor Waite
Music: Alastair Gavin
Actors: Robert Carlyle, Juliet Aubrey, James Nesbitt, Sophie Okonedo, Berwick Kaler, John Brobbey, Sarah Stockbridge,Tom Watson, Barbara Rafferty,Tony Curran, Erin McMahon, Sean Rocks, Dave Schneider,Tricky
Production: Andrew Eaton
Format: 35mm
Color: Color
Production Country: UK
Production Year: 1995
Duration: 88'

Michael Winterbottom

A talented and intelligent British filmmaker of intense and often introspective relationship dramas, Michael Winterbottom has displayed a wide array of diverse film projects that ranged from neo-noir thrillers and political docudramas to gritty family melodramas and satirical comedies. After getting his start with Thames Television, Winterbottom made his feature debut with the lesbian-centric noir Butterfly Kiss (1995) before his ambitious take on Thomas Hardy’s novel, Jude (1996). He earned considerable international acclaim for his searing war drama, Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), which unflinchingly depicted the horror of the brutal war in Yugoslavia. After the interesting, but little-seen revisionist Western, The Claim (2000), Winterbottom offered a restless kaleidoscope of images accompanied by a stellar soundtrack for 24 Hour Party People (2002), which once again helped boost his international acclaim. By the time he directed Casey Affleck in The Killer Inside Me (2010), Winterbottom was considered to be one of the more artistically daring directors working in contemporary cinema.

Filmography

1995 Butterfly Kiss
1996 Jude
1998 I Want You
1999 Wonderland
2000 The Claim
2002 24 Hour Party People
2004 9 Songs
2006 The Road to Guantanamo
2008 A Summer in Genoa
2010 The Killer Inside Me
2012 Everyday
2014 The Trip to Italy
2015 The Emperor's New Clothes
2018 The Wedding Guest
2020 The Trip to Greece
2023 Shoshana