I was hugely disappointed by this. The description of the film is wrong - it's not really about Andrea Dunbar at all - she only features in the first third of the film. Rather it's about the desperate life of one of her children - a spiral into addiction hell and everything which that entails, all described in graphic detail. I felt very uneasy at the 'poverty porn' aspect of the film - what are we to take from it other than these people are in desperate cycles of violence and addiction and alcoholism, with no redeeming features at all? The lip-synch acting is clever initially but is too strained to last the length of a feature and becomes gimmicky. Andrea Dunbar's story is hugely compelling but the story of the tragedy of her family and focus on her desperate child is not. Made me sad and angry.
