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Author John Byrne's diverse and inventive autobiographical film. With Robbie Coltrane.

Painter and author John Byrne's diverse and inventive autobiography, in which he travels from his youth, through his art school years, his stage and TV plays and on to his death.

In this diverse and inventive autobiography, painter and author John Byrne travels from his youth, through his art school years to the period of his stage and TV plays, and on to his death, sometime in the future.
With him is Robbie Coltrane as himself and as a shamus invented by Byrne, who discovers there are as many aspects to the author as there are actors playing him.

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