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Though Dek leads a simple and happy life with his girlfriend Shirley and her 12-year-old daughter Marlene, his grand, televised marriage proposal puts his devotion to the test—especially as Marlene's long-absent biological father, Jimmy, looms in the background.
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Robert Carlyle
Jimmy
Rhys Ifans
Dek
Shirley Henderson
Shirley
Kathy Burke
Carol
Ricky Tomlinson
Charlie
Finn Atkins
Marlene
James Cosmo
Billy
David McKay
Dougy
Anthony Strachan
Jumbo
Andrew Shim
Donut
Kelly Thresher
Donna
Eliot Otis Brown Walters
Lake
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