{"id":8530,"date":"2025-02-18T15:55:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.wearedeeperblue.co.uk\/history-clone\/?p=8530"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:55:03","slug":"feature-film-away-focuses-on-blackpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.wearedeeperblue.co.uk\/history-clone\/feature-film-away-focuses-on-blackpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature Film AWAY Focuses on Blackpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Away is a 2016 British drama film directed by David Blair and starring Timothy Spall and Juno Temple. It premiered at the 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival. It was released in the United Kingdom digitally on 8 May 2017 by 101 Films and on DVD on 15 May 2017 by Metrodome. The story takes place in Blackpool, where an unlikely friendship blossoms between a lonely, suicidal widower and a young woman trying to escape an abusive ex-boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, this is a grim drama set in Blackpool where the older of the two is Joseph (Timothy Spall), a boozy, depressed widower who has come to Blackpool so that he can kill himself. After a failed attempt, he is discovered by Ria (Juno Temple), a feisty young woman who is running away from an abusive relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Cast<br \/>\nTimothy Spall as Joseph<br \/>\nJuno Temple as Ria<br \/>\nMatt Ryan as Dex<br \/>\nSusan Lynch as Angie<br \/>\nHayley Squires as Kaz<br \/>\nTony Pitts as Col<br \/>\nTerry Stone as landlord<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8533\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/video\/detail\/B0B8PBJNNM\/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8533\" class=\"wp-image-8533 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.wearedeeperblue.co.uk\/history-clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MV5BNGZhYTE3NjctODEyMC00YTIzLWIxNWUtOTA4YzUwZTdmMWM4XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_FMjpg_UX960_.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"1440\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click poster above to watch on Amazon<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Away - Trailer\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QdCF1h2OT8E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Away is a 2016 British drama film directed by David Blair and starring Timothy Spall and Juno Temple. 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In a nutshell, this is a grim drama set in Blackpool where the older of the two is Joseph (Timothy Spall), a boozy,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[121,159,246],"class_list":["post-8530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-158","tag-celebrities","tag-159","tag-shows"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.8 (Yoast SEO v25.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Feature Film Away Highlights Friendship and Resilience in Blackpool<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Explore the heartfelt story of Away, a film set in Blackpool about friendship and resilience amidst despair.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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