Loved Up

Loved Up was a BBC drama for the Love Bites season of films, and was aired on 23 September 1995.The film was directed by Peter Cattaneo who also directed The Full Monty (1997) and Lucky Break (2001).The film stars Danny Dyer who starred in the 1999 film, Human Traffic, which explored similar themes of clubbing and drug culture.

The story revolves around Tom, played by Ian Hart, who has meets Sarah (Lena Headey) in the cafe in which she works.She is quickly swept up in Tom's headonistic life, where she finds escape from her traumatic family life.The film follows her path into the world of clubbing and ecstasy, her personal relationship with Tom and her growing family pressures. The film culminates with Sarah's mother's drink problem leading to an attempted suicide, and Sarah asking Tom for help.The help doesn't come and Sarah end her relationship with Tom, and the film ends in a moment all clubbers can relate to, where Tom pops another pill and dances his troubles away.

A soundtrack to accompany the film was also produced and featured artists such as; The Prodigy, Orbital and Leftfield.

A VHS tape was also produced, but is now deleted.A petition needs to be set up to get BBC to re-release this awesome production on DVD as many people are after a copy just do a search on Google, there is currently a used video for sale on Amazon for £58

Cast

Sarah - Lena Headey

Tom - Ian Hart

Danny - Charles Creed-Miles

Dez 1 - Clarence Smith

Ruth - Linda Basset

Karen - Milly Gregory

Dez 2 - Jason Isaacs

Cocker - Rick Warden

Ifti - Andrew Rajan

Donna - Sheila Whitfield

Ray - GLENISTER, Philip Glenister

Cab driver - Trevor Cooper

Nigel - Charles Edwards

Billy - Danny Dyer

Pat - Claire Sabre

Ron - David Aldous

First PC - Luke Williams

Second PC - Chris Jenkinson

Dozing raver - Gavin Hills

External links

"Loved Up" - BFI ScreenOnline