Seen on 3/8/09 - HBO
Cast: Jane Harrocks (Little Voice/Laura), Brenda Blethyn (Mari), Michael Caine
(Ray Say, the Talent scout),Ewan McGregor (Billy, breeds homing pigeons)
Dir.: Mark Herman
Based on Stage Play by Jim Cartwright.
The teenage girl called "Little Voice" or Laura is grief stricken over the loss of her father. She is reclusive and quite lost in the world of her father's music records, singing to herself the old songs of Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, et al. Her loud-mouthed eccentric mother Mari is busy picking up beaus. Her present lover Ray Say is a club promoter now fallen on hard times. When he hears LV sing he finds in her his opportunity for promoting a great singing star. His attempts to persuade her to come out of her grief and sing on the stage meet with partial success. Eventually she recedes into her shell snuffing out dreams of riches in her mother and her beau. Meanwhile she is unknowingly and quietly drawn to the telephone repairer, Billy who also keeps homing pigeons.
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