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Lifelike

19801h Movie

The producer and director are delighted with their television play about a comprehensive school. It seems truthful, authentic, really lifelike. But as rehearsals progress, a tense difference of opinion emerges between the author and the young schoolboy actor.

DirectorPeter Bartlett
WriterJohn Challen
ProducerAnne Head

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Cast · Directed by Peter Bartlett

PC
Peter Clay
Neil, TV producer
ALAlun Lewis
Alun Lewis
Andrew, TV director
MG
Matthew Guinness
Martin, TV writer
AT
Anny Tobin
Jenny, production secretary
PR
Phil Rowlands
Ben, production assistant
RE
Rob Edwards
Malcolm, actor
JL
Jennifer Lonsdale
Julie, actress
JR
John Ringham
Paul Bennett, actor
PE
Paul Easom
Alan, a teenager
JK
Jason Kemp
Piers, a teenager
MN
Maureen Nelson
First chaperone
CM
Craig McFarlane
Damien

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Lifelike hasn't started streaming in United States yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around March 15, 1980. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.