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Distant Voices, Still Lives

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1988

84 minutes (1 hrs 24 mins)

Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

Terence Davies

Starring

Freda Dowie · Pete Postlethwaite · Angela Walsh · Dean Williams · Lorraine Ashbourne · Sally Davies

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release: 29th September 1988

Netherlands release: 29th September 1988

France release: 16th November 1988

Box Office Quickview

UK box office

Debut box office: 30th Sep '88
Debut position: 3
Highest position: 3
Debut gross: £216.3 Thousand
Total chart weeks: 8

US box office

Box Office debut: 28th Jul '89
Debut position: 18
Highest position: 18
Debut gross: $10 Thousand
Total chart weeks: 3

Chart position history

UK box office

30 Sep, 1988
3

7 Oct, 1988
4

14 Oct, 1988
6

21 Oct, 1988
7

28 Oct, 1988
7

4 Nov, 1988
8

11 Nov, 1988
10

18 Nov, 1988
11

US box office

Global box office

Certificates

US
PG-13

Total grosses

UK total gross
United Kingdom Flag

£579.3 Thousand

US total gross
United States Flag

$693.6 Thousand

Global total gross
Global Flag

$771.7 Thousand

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News from around the web

A World Gone Away Forever: Terence Davies’ Distant Voices, Still Lives In Review Online Mon, 17th November 2025

Master at work: on set with celebrated British film director Terence Davies – in pictures The Guardian Wed, 22nd October 2025

Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past Museum of the Moving Image Sun, 21st September 2025

Terence Davies on Distant Voices Still Lives, 30 years later BFI Mon, 3rd September 2018

Persistence: Remembering The Memory Of Movies Newcity Film Tue, 4th February 2025

Distant Voices, Still Lives review – vividly present autobiographical masterpiece The Guardian Thu, 30th August 2018