My Mad Fat Diary (Series 1 & 2) - 4-DVD Box Set ( My Mad Fat Diary (Series One and Two) )

My Mad Fat Diary (Series 1 & 2) - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: My Mad Fat Diary (Series One and Two)
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
607 min + 30 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Ben Caron
Tim Kirkby

Written By:
Tom Bidwell
Rae Earl

Actors:
Jodie Comer ..... Chloe (13 episodes, 2013-2014)
Ciara Baxendale ..... Izzy (13 episodes, 2013-2014)
Dan Cohen ..... Archie (13 episodes, 2013-2014)
Sharon Rooney ..... Rae (13 episodes, 2013-2014)
Ian Hart ..... Dr. Kester Gill / ... (13 episodes, 2013-2014)
Claire Rushbrook ..... Rae's Mum / ... (13 episodes, 2013-2014)
Nico Mirallegro ..... Finn (13 episodes, 2013-2014)
Jordan Murphy ..... Chop (13 episodes, 2013-2014)
Darren Evans ..... Danny Two Hats / ... (12 episodes, 2013-2014)
Bamshad Abedi-Amin ..... Karim (12 episodes, 2013-2014)
Turlough Convery ..... Liam (7 episodes, 2014)
Sally Tatum ..... Jenny (6 episodes, 2014)
Sophie Wright ..... Tix (6 episodes, 2013)

Synopsis:

It's the 90's and the height of Britpop. Rae Earl is sixteen, overweight, and has some mental health issues... but at least there's music, mates and boys. Welcome to Rae's life, in all its honest, funny, painful glory.
Season 1
Big Wide World S1, Ep1 14 Jan. 2013
Touched S1, Ep2 21 Jan. 2013
Ladies and Gentlemen S1, Ep3 28 Jan. 2013
Don't Ever Tell Anybody Anything S1, Ep4 4 Feb. 2013
It's a Wonderful Rae Part 1 S1, Ep5 11 Feb. 2013
It's a Wonderful Rae Part 2 S1, Ep6 18 Feb. 2013
Season 2
Alarm S2, Ep1 17 Feb. 2014
Radar S2, Ep2 24 Feb. 2014
Girls S2, Ep3 3 Mar. 2014
Friday S2, Ep4 10 Mar. 2014
Inappropriate Adult S2, Ep5 17 Mar. 2014
Not I S2, Ep6 24 Mar. 2014
Glue S2, Ep7 31 Mar. 2014

Season 1
Big Wide World S1, Ep1 14 Jan. 2013
Overweight and under-confident teenager Rae Earl is discharged from psychiatric hospital and is met by her mother, who is hiding her Tunisian boyfriend Karim from the immigration authorities. Rae goes to the pub where her friend Chloe introduces her to her circle, including the desirable 'half geek, half rock god' Archie, whom Rae would love as her boyfriend. She is, however, prone to panic attacks and tries to return to the ward but is persuaded by her friend Tix to brave the big wide world. After a reconciliatory chat with her mother she attends Chloe's pool party ...
Touched S1, Ep2 21 Jan. 2013
Rae is not happy. Elderly Mrs Dewhurst across the road has accused her of being a Peeping Tom whilst a conversation with her friends in the pub exposes her as a virgin. A visit to Tix at the psychiatric ward is also depressing. However Archie asks her on a date and they are soon kissing. A second date is planned but Archie fails to show and when Rae goes after him he admits that he is gay and hoped that kissing a girl would make him straight. He is scared to come out so Rae decides the best way for them both to save face is for her to claim that she dumped him. ...
Ladies and Gentlemen S1, Ep3 28 Jan. 2013
Rae and Chloe fall out when Chloe admits she is secretly dating their P.E. teacher Stephen Carrisford. There is further disharmony when Chop and Finn invite Rae to a rock concert but not Chloe. In fact they regard Rae as one of the lads, rather than a girl, which disheartens her and, after an encounter with the Green Lane gang of bullies, she starts self-harming again. Rae admits to Dr Gill her envy of Chloe after which she is again picked on by the Green Lane gang but rescued by Finn, for whom she realises she is falling. However, on the day of the concert, she stays...
Don't Ever Tell Anybody Anything S1, Ep4 4 Feb. 2013
Rae and Finn are really hitting it off but she is scared he still sees her only as one of the boys. She tells Chloe about her self-harming and proposes telling her other friends in order to be honest. Then her mother and Karim go to Tunisia for a few days, Rae being warned against having any parties. However when Rae discovers that the postcards supposedly sent by her absent father working in Scotland were sent by her mother she rebels and has a party. She is also angry with Dr Gill because, although Rae knows his marriage is in difficulties, he never tells her about ...
It's a Wonderful Rae Part 1 S1, Ep5 11 Feb. 2013
Rae finds that she is vying with Chloe for Finn's affections. The gang is going to a rave but Rae's mother puts her foot down and tries to prevent her. After being sick Rae realizes that this is due to the combination of alcohol and her medication so she decides to stop taking the latter. This makes her behave oddly, freeing Karim's cage birds, some of whom die and leading to a huge row with her mother. After laying low at Finn's she goes to the rave where she is upset to see Chloe and Finn kiss. She returns home and patches things up with her mother but gets a call ...
It's a Wonderful Rae Part 2 S1, Ep6 18 Feb. 2013
Feeling guilty that she was not there for Tix Rae is also depressed when Chloe tells her of her feelings for Finn and imagines running her over. Things get worse when Rae realises that Chloe has read her diary and tries to commit suicide but is herself run over. Whilst Rae is unconscious Tix appears and tells her how life would be poorer if Rae was to do away with herself so, after being discharged from hospital, she goes to see Kester Gill, discussing her suicide attempt and her feelings for her father. On Kester's advice she goes to her mother's wedding and gives a ...
Season 2
Alarm S2, Ep1 17 Feb. 2014
Rae's still madly in love with Finn, but will her insecurities sabotage their relationship before it's even begun? Meanwhile, Kester encourages her to face her demons and finally confront the truth about what happened to Tix.
Radar S2, Ep2 24 Feb. 2014
Rae's mother finds out that Rae set off the fire alarm and she is forced to appear before the college principal who decides against suspending her but puts her on a warning. At the therapy session Rae is impressed by an articulate outburst from fellow group member and student Liam, who saw her set off the alarm but swears he told nobody. Back home Rae's mum announces that she is pregnant but Rae herself is far from happy as she increasingly wonders why such a good-looking boy as Finn wants to date her, particularly as his previous girlfriend was the slim blonde Stacey...
Girls S2, Ep3 3 Mar. 2014
Without Finn Rae does her best to fit in with a clique of cool, slim girls led by Stacey and, with her tastes in popular music and advice to love-lorn Lois about getting a boyfriend winning them over, she actually starts to bond with them. Only Liam has worked out her terrible secret, her refusal to eat in front of other people because of her weight problem though eventually she finds herself able to confide in Stacey about it. However this is a terrible mistake as she soon works out that Stacey surrounds herself with people who are vulnerable so that she can bitch ...
Friday S2, Ep4 10 Mar. 2014
Rae is pleased to have the apparently fearless Liam as her best, platonic friend, but is surprised that he wants to keep his group attendance secret. This spells trouble for Rae when Liam's violent girlfriend Amy, said to have been expelled from her last college for assault, threatens her and wants to know why they spend so much time together. She gives her until Friday. Liam refuses to tell Amy the truth but Rae sees he is not so tough when he breaks down and they kiss. Archie is also given the ultimatum by Lois to come out by Friday or else she will expose him. He ...
Inappropriate Adult S2, Ep5 17 Mar. 2014
Rae is hanging out with Liam, who is now single, but her mum sees them smoking pot and grounds her. With Finn dating a twenty-four year old and Chloe also hanging out with twenty somethings she feels very young and out of it. She decides to visit her long estranged father, Victor, who gives her driving lessons and a record deck for her birthday but asks her not to tell her mother. Chloe asks her to a party but she freaks out when the older Saul comes on to her and flees, ending up at Kester's before returning home and making up with her mum, agreeing to accompany her ...
Not I S2, Ep6 24 Mar. 2014
Chloe is meant to be singing the lead in the college musical but she has disappeared, not for the first time. Rae goes to her house and discovers her diary. She is initially appalled as Chloe describes her affair with P.T. teacher Stephen and distorts facts about Rae, whom she sees as a rival for Finn. However reading on she finds that Chloe describes her as ' a beautiful person, not bitchy and broken like me' and sees that Chloe is clearly less self-assured than she appears. Rae starts to feel for her, recalling the times Chloe helped her. At the therapy group Liam ...
Glue S2, Ep7 31 Mar. 2014
After spending the night with Liam Rae goes home to argue with her mother about seeing Victor and resenting the new baby. Following her split with Chloe she feels isolated at college and her efforts to get the old gang back together to find Chloe fail due to their bickering. After getting good advice from Kester she starts to turn things around, saving her mother when she starts bleeding and being glad to have a baby sister as well as saving Chloe from her vile boyfriend and joining her in a triumphant return to college. She finally gets the old group on good terms ...

Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.

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