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Released 23 years ago.
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Gifted
"You Can't Always Hide Behind Celebrity..."
2003 1h 35m EN
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9.0
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★9.0TMDB · 1
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Synopsis
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Jamie Gilliam is a bright young rising star with Castlefield City, a first division club on the verge of promotion to the premiership. When lapdancing student Sharon goes out to a club with friends she bumps into him and ends up going back to his place. She wakes up the next day feeling ill and not being able to remember how she got naked in his bed. When she later goes to the police charging rape no-one believes her and the club settles with her privately to keep her quiet. But is Jamie as clean cut as he appears?
“You Can't Always Hide Behind Celebrity...”
Cast
Kenny Doughty
Jamie Gilliam
Claire Goose
Maxine Norris
Paul Popplewell
Sean Dwyer
David Hayman
Michael Sanderson
Christine Tremarco
Sharon Harrison
Steve Evets
Mr. Gilliam
Pip Torrens
Richard Neilson
Andrew Dunn
DC Fairchild
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Douglas Mackinnon
- Writers
- Kay Mellor
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The take
Douglas Mackinnon directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Released 23 years ago.
- 2Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 3Kenny Doughty and Claire Goose and Paul Popplewell carry the top of the cast.
- 4Marketing tagline: "You Can't Always Hide Behind Celebrity...".
- 5IMDB entry: tt0385723 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 6Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 95 min · 1h 35m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- EN
- IMDB
- Gifted (2003)
Also by
Douglas Mackinnon
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical2003-10-29
