Our Friends In The North (DVDRip) Stars Daniel Craig

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115305/

An epic saga stretching from 1964 to 1995, Our Friends in the North follows the lives of four young people in North-East England. Nicky Hutchinson (Christopher Eccleston) is initially courting Mary Soulsby (Gina McKee) but the relationship cools when it takes second place to his campaigning for Harold Wilson's Labour Party. She weds Tory Tosker Cox (Mark Strong)instead, but their marriage is a miserable one, living in a rot-infested high rise block built following a dubious new housing scheme. Meanwhile, "Geordie" Peacock,(Daniel Craig) finally tiring of his drunken, abusive father, headbutts him and hitches down to London, where he ends up working for a surrogate "family" led by Malcolm McDowell's flash Soho sex club baron. Over the years, the paths of these characters intertwine, diverge then cross again, albeit occasionally stretching the bounds of plausible coincidence. The drama takes place against the backdrop of local authority and police corruption in the 60s, the radical far-left militancy of the early 70s, Thatcher's election, the 1984 miner's strike and the subsequent "murder" of Northern communities. What's brilliant about Our Friends is its melding of the personal and the political, with the soap opera of family estrangement played out against a backdrop of social decline. Peter Vaughn, playing Nicky's Dad as a former Jarrow marcher stricken by Alzheimer's, is especially poignant. If you didn't see this the first time, do so now.

DVD rip
497 mb per episode
Total runtime 623 min
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All 9 episode will fit on 1 standard DVD and play perfectly on a standalone DivX/AVI player

Episode One - 1964

After spending most of his summer in America helping the Civil rights movement Nicky arrives home in Newcastle full of enthusiasm and wanting to change the world around him. Geordie wants to start a band with Nicky on guitar, but Nicky has other ideas and offers to help Eddie Wells ‘foot slog’ for the Labour party as the general elections are looming. Unfortunately Nicky’s devotion to the Labour party results in his separation from his girlfriend Mary and her becoming more involved with their mutual friend, Tosker. Geordie has troubles of his own – he’s being forced down the aisle after getting a girl pregnant and is unsure what to do. This decision is made for him when his drunken and mentally unstable dad attacks both him and Tosker after he hears about the wedding plans. Geordie fights back, leaving his dad unconscious and decides to hitch down to London where no one will find him. After the Labour victory at the election Nicky is offered a job by Austin Donohue, a local business man, who wants to bring a housing revolution to the slums of Newcastle.

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Episode Two - 1966

Mary and Tosker are married and have moved into their first home together in the Willow Lane flats, a high rise development bankrolled by Austin Donohue and corrupt building magnate John Edwards. Nicky is still working for Donohue, but is getting increasingly tired of his ‘office boy’ position, setting up press interviews and rewriting insincere platitudes for local politicians who never seem to get anything done. Things are looking slightly better for Geordie who has managed to find a high profile and well paid job working for Soho porn baron Bennie Barratt. Tosker tiring of life at home with Mary and new born son Anthony, is out every night with a different woman on his arm leaving his new wife at home alone to cope with their son. Also tired of the life she has been forced into Mary reluctantly confides to Nicky that her marriage was a mistake, but she is unable to leave as she is pregnant once again. After eventually realising the level of corruption in Donohue’s office, Nicky leaves his job, taking confidential files for Edwards System Building with him.

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Episode Three - 1967

It’s only a year later, but the Willow Lane flats are already staring to look like they are slowly crumbling away. Mary and Tosker’s flat is riddled with damp, and the inhospitable conditions are adding an additional strain on their already rocky marriage. Mary finally turns to Eddie Wells for help and between them they start a campaign to try and get the flats fixed permanently. Conversely Geordie is making a name for himself in Soho as Barratt’s right hand man. Unfortunately he’s also started a relationship with Bennie’s mistress Jules, unaware that Barratt already knows about his deception. The porn industry is booming – in spite of Scotland Yards attempts to ‘stop the rot’. Corrupt cops have made deals with the main Soho players and Bennie Barratt is among the men willing to pay the Met to keep out of his business. Disillusioned with conventional politics, Nicky has become involved with the anarchist movement along with his new girlfriend Helen. When Mary and Eddie ask Nicky for help with their campaign he refuses and shortly afterwards decides to move to London to live with his new anarchist friends.

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Episode Four - 1970

1970, and after being apart for many years Nicky and Geordie finally meet up in London. Nicky is living in a squat with his anarchist friends, who are plotting a terror campaign against various targets. Geordie is drinking heavily and making regular trips to Scotland Yard to pay off Barratt’s ‘friends’ in the Met. An official investigation into corruption in the Met has also started which soon threatens to disturb the relationship between the corrupt officers in the Met and the porn barons they do business with. To save their own necks Barratt and CID decide to frame Geordie, who is arrested on his return to London after taking a holiday at Bennie’s insistence. The police are also catching up with Nicky – an investigation into the dealings of builder John Edwards leads to Austin Donahue’s former office boy. In order to protect his anarchist friends Nicky is forced to return to Newcastle where he meets up with Mary, a trainee lawyer and emerging politician, and Tosker, now a successful local businessman.

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Episode Five - 1974

It’s the winter of discontent, power strikes and three-day weeks are affecting everyone’s lives. Nicky is now living in the flat he originally found for Mary and Tosker and is editor of a radical magazine but, as the election looms, he decides to help Eddie Wells with his campaign once again. When Eddie is rejected as the official Labour candidate he decides to stand as an independent candidate with a little help (and persuasion) from Felix and Mary. Mary and Tosker’s marriage is even more strained, but they decide to stay together for the sake of their children, Anthony and Bernadette. Back in London Geordie has been released from jail but finds himself homeless and consumed with thoughts of revenge. He roams the streets of Soho looking for Barratt, but times have changed and the police are coming down hard on the porn shops and clubs. Geordie’s plans for revenge are ruined when the police are tipped off to Barratt’s whereabouts and arrest him just as Geordie is closing in. Not wanting to spend the rest of his life in prison Barratt spills the beans about the Met protection racket and several high profile police officers are arrested. With nothing else keeping him in London Geordie returns to Newcastle and for the first time in 10 years the friends are back together again.

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Episode Six - 1979

On the eve of a new decade things once again change dramatically for Our Friends. Nicky realises his political ambitions and becomes a militant Labour candidate for a local constituency. Unfortunately the press fail to take him seriously and his campaign is hindered even further by the dirty tricks of the Conservative MP Claudia Seabrook. Geordie is living in the flat next to Nicky and is once again caught up in police corruption – this time selling drugs for the Newcastle drug squad. Tosker is having a string of one-night stands, which abruptly come to an end when he meets and falls in love with Elaine. Mary agrees to a divorce but on her terms keeping the house for her and the children. Meanwhile Geordie’s activities have become known to the police and they attempt to arrest him, but find Mary’s son, Anthony in the flat instead playing with Geordie’s gun. Realising that the police are after him Geordie runs away once again rather than face another prison sentence. After 8 years of solid campaigning the Willow Lane flats are finally demolished and Nicky tries to rebuild his relationship with Mary, with little success.

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Episode Seven - 1984

Its 5 years since Nicky unwittingly let a Conservative MP gain a safe Labour seat, and he is now a successful photojournalist with a new book and an exhibition in Newcastle. Mary is also a success – she’s the leader of Newcastle Council and still practices law when she can find the time. The miners strikes are in full swing and additional forces from London are brought up to Newcastle to deal with the ‘problem’ much to the disgust of Anthony who’s now a member of the local police force. Tosker is becoming even more successful and is invited to join the Masons in Newcastle – enabling him to make even more business contacts. Violence eventually erupts on the picket line when a number of ‘scabs’ try to get back into the mine to work. Both Nicky and Anthony are caught in the thick of the violence; one taking photographs the other trying to get the miners to calm down. When two miners are badly beaten by the police Anthony agrees to testify against the police alienating him from his fellow officers. Mary and Nicky finally consummate their 20-year on / off relationship and both accept each others proposal of marriage.

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Episode Eight - 1987

Tosker is now a property landlord in Newcastle – renting out squalid flats to DSS claimants; his relationship with Elaine is also beginning to suffer as he slowly begins to neglect her. Nicky and Mary’s marriage is also on rocky ground and as Mary’s job becomes even more stressful Nicky spends more time in London and starts a casual affair with a young student. His new project is taking photos of the homeless in London where he comes across an alcoholic down and out Geordie. Unable to help his friend Nicky retreats even further from Mary and old pal Eddie Wells, who’s investigating the ‘cash for questions’ scandal in the Commons. After accepting money from Nicky, Geordie finds himself a bed in a homeless shelter but after watching Eddie on TV sets fire to his bed, and is sentenced to life imprisonment. The infamous 1987 storms signal the end of this episode with Tosker and Elaine finding solace in each other after their fortune is wiped out in the Stock Market Crash, and Nicky and Mary’s marriage comes to an end.

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Episode Nine - 1995

Geordie escape’s from jail and once again returns to Newcastle as does Nicky whose back from Italy to arrange his mother’s funeral. Tosker has managed to rebuild his fortune and is in the final stages of preparing his new nightclub for opening night. Anthony is now a community police officer and he and Mary (now a successful MP) are both at loggerheads about what to do with a local teenage tearaway, Chris Collins. Geordie has also met Chris and tries to help him when he confronts his dad in a hotel bar; unfortunately Geordie only gets a bloody nose for his troubles. Meanwhile Nicky finally comes to terms with his relationship with his father, although he is unable to talk to Felix as he is in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s. The opening night for Tosker's night club is a success, and he realises his ambitions of being in a band after 30 long years. Finally the day of Florrie's funeral dawns, bringing all 4 friends together once again, but for how long?

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[matchbox]

Wrong code for Episode 9, can anyone help?

[peka]

Your right, last one doesnt work. Maybe big rob will be back and sort it out soon.

[bigrob]

Episode 9

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[peka]

Cheers Bigrob, works great!

[Feenybeast]

Thanks so much, I've been after this for ages, brilliant!