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Synopsis: 1987, love in time of war. A bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her family dispersed; she's suicidal. George takes her to Nicaragua to find out what has happened to them and to help her face her past. Once home, Carla's nightmarish memories take over, and Carla and George are thrown into the thick of the US war against the Sandinistas. A mystery develops over where Carla's boyfriend is, and the key to his whereabouts may be Carla's friend Bradley, a bitter American aid worker. She finds her family, the Contras attack, and she and the Scot face their choices.
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Director(s): Ken Loach
Production: Shadow Distribution
  4 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
Year:
1996
127 min
180 Views


you later on.

Hold on there.

Wait a minute.

Just a wee minute.

- Now is the time.

- Now is the time. Da-da!

It's beautiful.

Thank you.

- It's nothing, darlin'.

- That's nice, Sammy boy.

- You'd never do this for me.

- I'd do this for you.

- Would you f***.

- I would.

It's really beautiful...

but there is one mistake.

This one is A, not O.

- You f***ed it up.

- I got a wee dictionary.

Spanish-English dictionary. Oh, well,

you can't get the grammar in everything.

- Thank you.

- Hey, ho, ho.

Ho, ho, ho, enough.

No... no hands.

Get out of that.

Well done.

Come here.

- Have to cheat a wee bit.

- No hands.

These tights are gonna be

a bit of a problem.

Oh, f***ing hell.

My teeth are going to

go f***in' flying out.

- OK?

- Mm-hm.

You need to kiss it better,

though.

Stand up.

Stand up.

OK.

Oh, no, no.

F*** it, f*** it.

Enough of that.

Come here.

F***ing hell, Carla,

what happened to your back?

I'm sorry.

Carla... Carla, I'm sorry.

I'm really sorry.

I'm sorry, darling, OK?

It's just a shock, OK?

Just hold me.

I'm sorry, Carla.

I'm sorry, baby.

Can... can you tell me

about the letters?

- The letters?

- The letters.

From Antonio...

Mi companero.

He was... hurt.

- Really hurt.

- He was hurt?

Too hurt.

Too hurt.

It's OK.

It's OK.

Please don't cry.

More than one letter,

I never opened them.

After the day in

the mountain...

I feel very strong.

And I opened the letters.

What did they say?

Nothing.

And everything.

I don't understand, darlin'.

What do you mean?

Song.

A simple song that

we wrote together,

until the...

We just played.

What happened to him?

Carla,

what happened to Antonio?

Promise not to ask.

Not to ask.

- Promise me.

- OK, OK, I promise. I promise.

On the life of your mother.

Say it.

On the life of my mother,

I promise I'll never ask.

For you, to Nicaragua?

For me.

- For me?

- For you.

Listen, you can't imagine

the situation at my home.

It's too dangerous for you.

But listen, Carla, we can't keep running

away from this. We can't bury this.

Am I right or am I wrong?

- You are right.

- I scared you when I said that.

But I don't know

where Antonio is.

Carla, you have nightmares about this guy.

You dream about this guy.

You don't know where he is,

whether he's hurt or he's alive,

whether he's dead.

We have to find him.

- This is my mum.

- Your mum?

Yes.

And this is my sister...

Lisa and Francisca.

Goodness.

- Who's that?

- Bradley.

We'll find him the first.

- Before your family?

- Yes.

He'll help us find Antonio.

So what does he do?

Now he work for Accin Cristiana

Permanente por la Paz.

A US voluntary group.

So he's a human

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Paul Laverty

Paul Laverty (born 1957) is a Scottish lawyer and scriptwriter. more…

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