Worried About the Boy (2010)

Cautiously Recommended

UK

Television Film

Director: Julian Jarrold

Writer: Tony Basgallop

Cinematographer: Tony Slater-Ling

Cast: Douglas Booth, Mathew Horne, Mark Gatiss, Marc Warren, Freddie Fox, Francis Magee, Richard Madden

This lovingly crafted and generally entertaining if, perhaps, a little overly ambitious BBC drama presents an examination of the life of George O’Dowd, soon to be Boy George, from his leaving school, through his many fashion experiments and broken hearts, to his first appearance on Top of the Pops, filtered through his height-of-fame, drug withdrawn tabloid hell. Iain.Stott