Father & Son ( Father and Son )

Father & Son (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Father and Son
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
179 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
Ireland ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Brian Kirk

Written By:
Frank Deasy

Actors:
Dougray Scott ..... Michael O'Connor
Sophie Okonedo ..... Connie Turner
Ian Hart ..... Tony Conroy
Stephen Rea ..... Augustine Flynn
Reece Noi ..... Sean O'Connor (4 episodes, 2009)
Wunmi Mosaku ..... Stacey Cox (4 episodes, 2009)
Simon Delaney ..... George
John Kavanagh ..... John O'Connor
Terence Maynard ..... Barrington (4 episodes, 2009)
Imani McLaren ..... Imani Turner (4 episodes, 2009)
Flora Montgomery ..... Anna (4 episodes, 2009)
Darren Morfitt ..... Blanchflower
Philip Arditti ..... Suliman
Michael McElhatton ..... Detective Norman McGinty
Dwayne Scantlebury ..... Jacob King (3 episodes, 2009)
David Wilmot ..... Detective Declan Henderson
Damien Devaney ..... Prison Officer #2
Jenny Jules ..... Barbara King (2 episodes, 2009)
Omaar March ..... Benjamin King (2 episodes, 2009)
Sefton Miller ..... Young South Soldier (2 episodes, 2009)
Steve Wilson ..... Prison Officer

Synopsis:

Michael was a Manchester gangster - one of the toughest around. While he served his time his wife paid the ultimate price. All Michael wants now is a fresh start. He's turned his back on his 15 year old son Sean and moved to Ireland with his pregnant girlfriend. But Michaels past comes calling. Sean has been caught up in a shooting and stands accused of murder. Michael is the only person who can help but if he takes this second chance to be a father to his boy he must return to Manchester and his old life one last time to find the answers. Can Michael make this final pivotal decision.

The series focuses on inner city crime life in both the United Kingdom and Ireland. Ex-criminal Michael O'Connor (Dougray Scott) comes back to Ireland to live with his new pregnant partner Anna, free from his past life of crime in the UK. Michael was arrested and spent years in prison in the UK, leaving his wife Lynne and son Séan (Reece Noi) on their own. Three days later his wife Lynne was murdered, leaving Michael devastated, and he quickly turns his back on crime. He returns to Ireland, leaving his son Séan behind in the care of Lynne's sister Connie. Connie and Séan live in a gang-ridden Manchester suburb. Séan distances himself from the gangs, and their culture of violence. But it's not long until gang leader Jacob King (Dwayne Scantlebury) disturbs the peace. However, with the unfolding of unexpected events, Séan is arrested for a murder which he did not commit, and is imprisoned. These events lead his father Michael back to Manchester to help free his son from prison. Manchester however brings back painful memories for Michael, as it was here his wife was murdered, and comes to terms that his past involvement in crime resulted in Lynne's death.
Season 1
Episode #1.1
S1, Ep1 Jun. 29, 2009
Ex Manchester gangland boss Michael O'Connor, who is now happily settled in rural Ireland, is forced to go back to Manchester when his son Sean is found guilty of the murder of a gang member. The shooting was done by Sean's girlfriend Stacey Cox but in order to protect her Sean takes the blame even though he has no criminal affiliation. Michael must find a way of protecting Sean before he becomes jail bound. Meanwhile, Michael's Irish girlfriend Anna finds out that she is pregnant.

Episode #1.2
S1, Ep2 Jul. 6, 2009
D.I. Tony Conroy and his team search for Jacob King and the Motorway Crew. Michael and Sean meet at the prison but relations are hostile. Michael and Barrington hatch up a plan to help Barrington escape with Sean, with the help of Augustine Flynn and some creative money laundering. Anna comes to see Michael in Manchester and gets involved involuntarily. Jacob's young brother Benjamin is found at school with the .38 pistol that killed Elijah and it is found to be an organized crime gun. Meanwhile, Jacob tries unsuccessfully to kill Michael and Michael goes after him ...

Episode #1.3
S1, Ep3 Jul. 13, 2009
Michael meets with Conroy to make a deal and gain the release of Sean. Michael's dad has a heart-attack whilst visiting Sean at the prison. When Michael goes to pick up clothes for John from his house he discovers that John was grassing him to Conroy years earlier and which may have led to Lynn' s death. Sean discovers that Barrington and Stacey are involved and becomes enraged. Meanwhile, Irish detectives begin to hound Anna in Ireland.

Episode #1.4
S1, Ep4 Jul. 20, 2009
Michael goes to talk to Sean in prison and tells him about the deal he struck with Conroy but Sean refuses to co-operate and in the course of events reveals that he killed his mother accidentally with Michael's loaded gun which he had been playing with. Stacey goes to collect Barrington's money and has a confrontation with Michael. On leaving the hotel she is shot dead by Jacob King. McGinty and Henderson enter Anna's house and tie her up and leave a Molotov Cocktail next to her on the orders of Augustine. Augustine blackmails Michael into killing Barrington with ...

A former Manchester gangster living Ireland ventures back to his old stomping grounds to clear his teenage son of murder charges, and realizes that he may never make it out alive in this mini-series written by Emmy winner Frank Deasey and starring Dougray Scott. Michael (Scott) had a reputation as one of the meanest thugs in Manchester, but during his stint in prison his wife was brutally murdered. Upon his release, Michael abandons his 15 year old son Sean, and plans to start a new life in Ireland. But just Michael's his girlfriend prepares to give birth to their first child, Michael learns that his son has been implicated in a fatal shooting back home. Determined not to sit idly by as Sean careens down the same destructive path that he once did, the repentant father returns to Manchester determined to set things right. Unfortunately for Michael, not everyone is willing to forgive and forget. Now as the man who murdered his wife goes on trial, Michael contends with a vindictive cop who seeks to lock him up for good, and prepares to sacrifice everything in exchange for his son's freedom.

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