Movie
Riff-Raff
Overview
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.
Details
- Release date
- 1991-06-21
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Parallax Pictures
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Robert Carlyle as Stevie
- Emer McCourt as Susan
- George Moss as Mo
- Jimmy Coleman as Shem
- Ricky Tomlinson as Larry
- David Finch as Kevin
- Peter Mullan as Jake
- Richard Belgrave as Kojo
- Ade Sapara as Fiaman
- Derek Young as Desmonde
- Bill Moores as Smurph
- Willie Ross as Gus Siddon
Crew
- Ken Loach - Director
- Bill Jesse - Screenplay
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