Another pitcher of misery from British studios, this touches the emotions towards the end, but is otherwise a less effective version of Lee (Billy Elliot) Hall's famous radio play I Luv You Jimmy Spud. Relentlessly downbeat in spite of some promising fantasy elements, the story follows 11-year-old Jimmy and his life with chippie-worker mam (Rosie Rowell), cancer-ridden dad (Iain Glen) and pigeon-fancying gramps (David Bradley). Jimmy, wanting to be an angel to help his dad, fantasises Gabriel (Billy Connolly) but, in common with Billy Elliot, has any intellectual aspirations squashed by dad, who buys him a football strip instead of an encyclopedia, smashes his trumpet and suspects 'the worst' of Jimmy's friendship with a boy scout. Hall himself wrote the script but, despite decent performances (especially from Rowell), it needed to be lighter and sharper to have had any major impact.