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The boys from 'The Black Stuff' are back - in a riotous new movie. It's 'No Surrender' and it's Alan Bleasdale's best yet: blacker than 'Black Stuff' and brutally funny. New Year's Eve - Mike (Michael Angelis), is the new manager of Liverpool's seedy Charleston Club. First he discovers that the club's previous owner is being tortured, Gestapo style, by the club's mobster boss. Then he finds that the guest list includes a wanted terrorist, the local Orange Lodge, and their age-old Catholic enemies! Suddenly unemployment seems very appealing... With help from brainless bouncer Bernard (Bernard Hill), and Cheryl (Joanne Whalley), a cook who should stick to singing, entertainment from a band that can't play, a magician called Rosco de Ville (Elvis Costello), who specialises in nervous breakdowns - and murder, fist fights, bottle fights, sectarian hatred and fancy dress on the menu, 'No Surrender' is one New Year's Eve Party you'll never forget!
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