
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in.

Michael Angelis
Mike

Bernard Hill
Bernard

Ray McAnally
Billy McRacken

Tom Georgeson
Mr Ross

Joanne Whalley
Cheryl

James Ellis
Paddy Burke

Avis Bunnage
Martha Gorman

J.G. Devlin
George Gorman

Elvis Costello
Rosco De Ville

Michael Ripper
Tony Bonaparte
Vince Earl
Frank

Mark Mulholland
Norman

Ken Jones
Ronny
Joan Turner
Superwoman
Marjorie Sudell
Barbara