A unique collaboration between the residents of the housing estates in Leeds and filmmaker Penny Woolcock, Tina Goes Shopping is a powerful mixture of drama and documentary filmmaking.
Tina (Kelli Hollis - Shameless) is an incredibly resourceful single Mum. Realising that hardly anyone on her estate has enough money to buy things in the shops she sets up - "a shopping service" - a business stealing to order and selling the goods at half price. Seeing herself as a "grafter", she sets to work collecting the orders for her weekly trip into Leeds. Little does she know that when she returns to sell her wares in the local pub that the smack heads have been there earlier and undercut her.....
Her dad is known as "Don" in recognition of his status as a kind of godfather to the area. Incredibly knowledgeable, Don is very well read as well as being good at keeping one step ahead of the local police. That is until he beats Aaron, Tina's drug addict boyfriend, one too many times, and Aaron turns into a grass. On this estate everyone has a little scam going and Aaron is no different. As a matter of course the young lads, Shane, Porky and Verbal in the area steal cars and joyride them, yet Aaron has to take it one step further - stealing a cow.
Aaron's not the only onei forced by desperate means into doing something extremely risky. Don's sister, Queenie, mum to eleven kids, owes thousands of pounds to the debt collectors. As the Monday Man, a particularly menacing collector, comes to call, keen to exact either money or revenge, Queenie must put on the acting performance of a lifetime.
(Tina Takes a Break)
It is five years on and Tina's kids have reached the age were getting into trouble is a way of lige on the harsh Leeds housing estate where they live. Tina has been arrested and put in prison for drug offences, and the kids are being looked after by their hapless father Kev. Before her arrest, Tina had promised to take the kids to Blackpool for a day out and they are determined not to give up on the plan. As events conspire, the day trip turns out to be rather more of an adventure than they bargained for!
Supplied as a 2 Disc set, the quality compared to a retail dvd, is Audio 7 Video 7 (Good!)
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