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Bad Night for the Blues

16m

Directed by Chris Shepherd • 2010 • United Kingdom

It’s a holiday to remember—or not—when a young man joins his dotty elderly aunt for a Christmas party at her local Conservative Club, where the wine is flowing, the bingo is heated, and the cracks in the genteel facade start to show.

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