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Tumbledown

Tumbledown (1988)

Biographical, Drama, War | UK

Director: Richard Eyre

BBC Four | Wednesday, 15 June 2022 | 22:00

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Rating: 7.4/10

SYNOPSIS

Charles Wood's 1988 fact-based drama, starring Colin Firth, and directed by Richard Eyre. Scots Guards officer Robert Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper during the Falklands campaign of 1982. He is left paralysed on one side of his body and struggles to adjust to both his new disability and the loss of his military career. With Paul Rhys, David Calder and Barbara Leigh-Hunt.

Actors

Writer: Charles Wood

Producer: Richard Broke, Timothy Ironside-Wood

RUNTIME: 115 min

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