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• Actors: Phillip Mawdsley, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley, Robin Hooper, Colin Hignet
• Directors: Terence Davies
• Writers: Terence Davies
• Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Strand Home Video
• VHS Release Date: October 2, 2001
• Run Time: 101 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 630481965X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #336,146 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Robert Tucker: A life of quiet desperation, August 19, 2010

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This review is from: Terence Davies Trilogy [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This work contains three short/shortish, black-and-white, films that Davies did for television in the 1970s and early 80s. They deal with Liverpool, homosexuality, Catholicism, mother-love, repression, and obscurity. The first, "Children," shows a youngster, Robert Tucker, his long-suffering mother and tyrannical, paranoid and perhaps insane father. The boy is just starting to wonder about his attraction to other males, particularly an older one he sees in the shower.The second opus, "Madonna and Child," portrays him as a thirtysomething man, a clerk in a shipping office, who cares for/about his mother and regularly attends church, even going to confession. He also leads a closet life unknown to the few who know him: trysts with other men, some in leather, that explore the rougher aspects of gay sex. This is shown obviously but not at length. Even when he goes to confession, he tells the priest everything except his secret life. Is it because he feels what he is doing is not really wrong? The final part, "Death and Transfiguration," shows Tucker as a very old man, dying alone in a hospital. It is depresssingly effective. At the point of death, we see him reaching out physically: to God, or to that youth he once saw in the shower? This compedium is excellent but not upbeat.