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The Outcast

The Outcast (2015)

Drama, Animated, Family | UK

Director: Ian Softley

BBC1 | Sunday 19 July 2015 | 20:00

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Sunday 19 July 2015 20:00

User rating: 10/10

SEASON: 1

EPISODE: 2

SYNOPSIS

The conclusion of Sadie Jones' two-part adaptation of her own best-selling novel of the same name. With his mother's tragic death having set in motion a chain of events that would lead him down a self-destructive path to prison, Lewis Aldridge serves his sentence, and resolves to return home to suburban Surrey a changed man. However, despite his intention to make amends for the mistakes of his past, the residents of his childhood home might not be so pleased to see him. Coming-of-age drama, set in the 1950s, starring George Mackay, Jessica Brown Findlay, Hattie Morahan and Greg Wise.

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Writer: Sadie Jones

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