About a Girl

2001
9m

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A girl tells the story of her life and hopes for the future.A girl tells the story of her life and hopes for the future.A girl tells the story of her life and hopes for the future.

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6.7/10

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Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 5 wins total

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Ashley Thewlis

Girl

John Slater

Father

Sue Jaynes

Mother

Laren Creek

Toddler
(as Loren Crook)

Sarah Patel

Friend

Jill Regan

Friend

Kimberley Perkins

Friend

Jo Midgley

Shop Assistant

James Brent

Fishing Boy 1
(as James Brown)

Lee Shepherd

Fishing Boy 2

St. Willibrord's

Red Football Team
(as St Willibrords)

Nelson Tavern

Blue Football Team

Director
- Brian Percival
Writer
- Julie Rutterford
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Connections
Edited into Cinema16: British Short Films (2003)

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Written by Max Martin (as Martin Sandberg)/Rami Yacoub
Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd
Performed by Britney Spears
Courtesy of Zomba Records Ltd

Depicting the life of a young teenage girl in a wasteland-esque urban British estate. With towering blocks of flats looming over the setting and the disadvantaged, awful circumstances that encase the girl the twist and the execution is brilliant, a truly grim end it's a great commentary on a modern society and some of its less glamorous issues