Deadly Advice

Deadly Advice (1994) blends Comedy and Drama elements. Top cast includes Jane Horrocks, Brenda Fricker, and Imelda Staunton. Relationships and emotional turning points shape the core of the story.

Actor: Jane Horrocks • Genre: Comedy movies

Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has feelings for the local doctor, a man much older than her, for which her mother strongly disapproves. Beth finds a relationship with a male stripper in Bristol, but sees nothing in the future with Mother around. While both girls would like to be rid of Mother, nothing happens until Jodie sees images of H. R. Armstrong, the man who put the town on the map by dispatching his un-loving wife