• Film

Man Dancin'

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Time Out says

Jimmy Kerrigan (Ferns) returns to his drear windswept Glasgow council estate after nine years in a Northern Irish jail for gun-running. He's determined to go straight, but prospects look poor even before he puts his key in the door. He 'takes a slapping' for his crack-head younger brother and swiftly attracts the eye of his former gangland boss Donnie (Cosmo). At first, Donnie and bent cop 'Pancho' Villers (Cranham) think Jimmy's reform is a feint to disguise personal ambition. But their shared desire to curtail his existence is stoked by the turncoat's conversion of an am-dram group into a 'Stop the Rot' anti-crime organisation that threatens to politicise the locals. Ferns negotiates this morass with integrity intact. Some of his wry double-takes testify to the director's occasionalsuccess in modulating the film's otherwise resolutely solemn tone. Ferns' performance and the location work aside, the movie is dismally unconvincing.

Release Details

  • Duration:114 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Norman Stone
  • Screenwriter:Sergio Casci
  • Cast:
    • Alex Ferns
    • Tom Georgeson
    • Kenneth Cranham
    • James Cosmo
    • Jenny Foulds
    • Cas Harkins
    • Tam White
    • Stewart Porter
    • Gerald Lepkowski
    • Ron Donachie
    • Neil McCormack
    • Anthony Donaldson
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