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Once upon a time in the Midlands

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A tinned spaghetti western.

Dek (Rhys Ifans) and Shirley (Shirley Henderson) live together with 12-year-old Marlene (Finn Atkins), her daughter by the sexy, delinquent Jimmy (Robert Carlyle) who went off into the badlands of Glasgow years ago and hasn't been heard from since. Decent-but-dull Dek loves Shirley so much that he humiliates her by proposing without warning on national television. Like everyone else Shirley has ever met, Jimmy is watching when she turns Dek down on TV and he returns to town, determined to win her back. Shirley seems destined to succumb to Jimmy's charms, but he hasn't reckoned on the obstacles: their daughter Marlene, his sister Carol (Kathy Burke), her estranged husband Charlie (Ricky Tomlinson), their sons Emerson (Ryan Bruce) and Lake (Eliot Otis Brown Walters), Carol's daughter Donna (Kelly Thresher) and her boyfriend Donut (Andrew Shim). Nor could he anticipate the heroic, last-minute challenge from mild-mannered, love-sick Dek.