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Distant Voices, Still Lives

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1988

84 minutes (1 hrs 24 mins)

Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

Terence Davies

Starring

Freda Dowie · Pete Postlethwaite · Angela Walsh · Dean Williams · Lorraine Ashbourne · Sally Davies

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release: 29th September 1988

Netherlands release: 29th September 1988

France release: 16th November 1988

Box Office Quickview

UK box office

Debut box office: 30th Sep '88
Debut position: 3
Highest position: 3
Debut gross: £216.3 Thousand
Total chart weeks: 8

US box office

Box Office debut: 28th Jul '89
Debut position: 18
Highest position: 18
Debut gross: $10 Thousand
Total chart weeks: 3

Chart position history

UK box office

30 Sep, 1988
3

7 Oct, 1988
4

14 Oct, 1988
6

21 Oct, 1988
7

28 Oct, 1988
7

4 Nov, 1988
8

11 Nov, 1988
10

18 Nov, 1988
11

US box office

Global box office

Certificates

US
PG-13

Total grosses

UK total gross
United Kingdom Flag

£579.3 Thousand

US total gross
United States Flag

$693.6 Thousand

Global total gross
Global Flag

$771.7 Thousand

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News from around the web

Distant Voices, Still Lives review – vividly present autobiographical masterpiece The Guardian Thu, 30th August 2018

Terence Davies on Distant Voices Still Lives, 30 years later BFI Mon, 3rd September 2018

Persistence: Remembering The Memory Of Movies Newcity Film Tue, 4th February 2025

Terence Davies, Esteemed British Director of ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives,’ Dies at 77 Variety Sat, 7th October 2023

Distant Voices, Still Lives Review empireonline.com Fri, 30th March 2007

Blu-ray Review: Terence Davies’s Distant Voices, Still Lives on Arrow Video Slant Magazine Tue, 23rd October 2018