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Brassed Off
Why this pick
Shares Little Voice’s bruised working-class English setting, rueful humour and music as an emotional lifeline, with a similarly compassionate eye for people finding dignity under pressure.
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MOVIE1998 1h 37m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Keep the feeling.
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The Commitments
Why this pick
A scruffy, funny working-class music story whose rehearsals and performances create the same sense that borrowed songs can unlock buried identity and feeling.
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Happy-Go-Lucky
Why this pick
Mike Leigh’s close attention to ordinary British lives, vivid social awkwardness and emotional undercurrents suits Little Voice’s blend of comedy, pain and defiant selfhood.
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Vera Drake
Why this pick
Its unshowy, compassionate portrait of a working-class woman and family secrets carries the same intimate British realism and ache beneath everyday humour.
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The Dressmaker
Why this pick
For Little Voice’s appeal as a tale of female reinvention through performance and style: this is another darkly comic, emotionally wounded story of a woman reclaiming her presence.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Laura Hoff, an only child, is a reclusive young woman who lives with her mother in a working-class home in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. She is known as LV (short for Little Voice) for her reticence. She flees reality, hiding away in her bedroom, listening to records and mimicking their artists' voices like Gracie Fields', Judy Garland's, and Shirley Bassey's; her love of songs is her only source of strength since her beloved father's death. Her mother Mari, a promiscuous woman with countless affairs, jilts a man when her passion wanes.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jane Horrocks
LV
Jim Broadbent
Mr. Boo
Fred Feast
Arthur
Graham Turner
LV's Dad
James Welsh
Bouncer
Brenda Blethyn
Mari Hoff
Michael Caine
Ray Say
Ewan McGregor
Billy