GO NOW (1996)

" Wrenching, passionate and unforgettable!"

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Nick Cameron....Robert Carlyle
Karen...........Juliet Aubrey
Tony............James Nesbitt
Paula...........Sophie Okenedo
Sammy...........Berwick Kaler
Bill Cameron....Tom Watson
Madge Cameron...Barbara Rafferty
Dell............Darren Tighe


Revolution Films/BBC Films

Director.................Michael Winterbottom
Producer.................Andrew Eaton
Screenplay by............Paul Henry Powell 
&........................Jimmy McGovern
Director of Photography..Daf Hobson
Executive Producer.......David M. Thompson
Production Designer......Hayden Pearce
Editor...................Trevor Waite

Running time: 82 minutes

Robert plays Nick, a young man stricken with multiple sclerosis, in a film which takes an unsentimental, honest look at the difficulties caused by this illness. By turns hard-hitting, funny, romantic and heart rending, this film is subtle in its treatment, creating real characters you grow to know well, and to care about. There are no easy solutions here - just an attempt to come to terms with what life throws up.

Some facts about GO NOW:

  • Screenwriter Paul Henry Powell is an MS sufferer who conceived the idea for the script while looking for something to do when his physical disabilities took away his capacity to play sport.
  • Go Now was made as part of a BBC2 single drama series called Love Bites, and was screened on television before making its cinema debut. Love Bites consisted of three films about falling in and out of love: Go Now, Loved Up by Ol Parker (starring Lena Headey and Ian Hart); and David Kane's Ruffian Hearts.
  • Go Now had its international premiere at the 53rd Venice Film Festival, as did Carla's Song.
  • Juliet Aubrey, who starred as Dorothea Brooks in BBC's Middlemarch, makes her film debut in Go Now.
  • Barbara Rafferty, who plays Nick's mother, is Agnes from Hamish Macbeth.
  • The film was shot in Bristol.
  • On their first date in the movie, Nick and Karen watch the film True Lies, and play a piano duet of "Go Now", before moving on to other activities . . .
  • The soundtrack includes music by Joe Tex, Bob Marley, Portishead, Massive Attack and Bessie Banks
  • Michael Winterbottom directed Jude (1996), starring Christopher Eccleston & Kate Winslet, with Trevor Waite as editor and Andrew Eaton as producer.
  • Winterbottom also directed Butterfly Kiss (1996), featuring Amanda Plummer. Again, Trevor Waite was the editor.

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