"Your life is not your own, is it?"
Charlie Bubbles (Albert Finney), is a writer, who returns to Manchester, to try and reconnect with people. The capacity he has lost since moving to London and becoming rich and successful. To do so he visits his estranged wife (Billie Whitelaw) and son. All this and he's seeing his young secretary (Liza Minnelli) as well.
Albert returns to the place of his birth, much like the character he portrays in the film, in this dramatised middle life crisis, written by Salford lass done good Shelagh Delaney. Annoyingly this is as detatched as the character itself, and whilst entertaining enough you are never drawn to the people being portrayed.
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