Five Daughters (2010)

Recommended

UK

Television Mini-Series

Director: Philippa Lowthorpe

Writer: Stephen Butchard

Cinematographer: Chris Seager

Composer: Peter Salem

Cast: Sarah Lancashire, Ian Hart, Jaime Winstone, Juliet Aubrey, Al Weaver, Eva Birthistle, Aisling Loftus, Martin Compston, Natalie Press, Sean Harris, David Bradley, Joseph Mawle, Adam Kotz, Kierston Wareing, Ruth Negga, Christopher Fairbank, Vicky McClure, Lisa Millett

This sensitive, respectful, and very human BBC mini-series dramatises the events that took place in Ipswich in December 2006, when five young, drug-addicted prostitutes were murdered in a short space of time, concentrating on the day-to-day lives of the girls and the police investigation, with (thankfully) no time at all given to the actual killings themselves. Iain.Stott