
Drama · Animation
Dad's Dead
Our narrator looks fondly back at his childhood in Liverpool and the antics of his best friend Johnno. Well known for being a showman and a keen one for joking and the like, Johnno starts to change for the worse after he announced that his father has died.
Part of the Chris Shepherd's Dead Series →Top Cast

Ian Hart
Narrator (voice)
Chris Freeney
Johnno
Dallas Messias
Johnno's Mum
John Murphy
Johnno's Dad
Charlotte McDougall
Lady in Children's Book
Joe Robson Rutherford
Boy in Children's Book
Dave Kent
Old Man

Kay D'Arcy
Narrator's Mother
Directed by
Chris Shepherd
Production
Reviews
CinemaSerf
6/104/5/2026
Regaling us with memories of his Liverpudlian childhood, this tells us of a man who's relationship with his best friend ''Jonno'' ended up having quite a bearing on his own life. These two lads were joined at the hip and were always larking around together, but as they grew older "Jonno" moved on from their harmless antics with some Flake 99s to much more brutish behaviour with pigeons and cats; a whopping great lie and then finally to an incident that saw the latter man become innocently incarcerated for a fairly heinous crime. That's perhaps what is most striking about this rather depressing feature. Even though our storyteller doesn't appear too bear many grudges, the whole film has an unpleasant thuggishness to it that is completely devoid of even the darkest humour as it rolls out a p
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