
Jenny McCrindle
Actor · 1968 – 2014 · Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
Scottish actress famous for roles in Looking After Jo Jo, Your Cheatin' Heart, Dream Baby and The Acid House. Lost her 15 year battle with MS in 2014 aged just 46.
Movies8
Movie10.0ComedyDramaBrutal drama, with the occasional comic twist, about a wannabe gangster who buys a Glasgow warehouse which he plans to turn into the flagship of his criminal empire. Believing he has eliminated his arch-rival, he decides to hold the party of a lifetime to celebrate.
The Life of Stuff
1997 · 1 votes
Movie6.2ComedyDramaA surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.
The Acid House
1998 · 144 votes
Movie7.0TV MovieComedyAn off-beat romantic comedy about the complex relationships between the inhabitants of a Glasgow tenement block. The final film in the Love Bites trilogy.
Ruffian Hearts
1995 · 1 votes
Movie7.2ComedyDramaVic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late Edith Semple to sainthood; Mathews, a non-believer, wishes the school would concentrate on teaching the children. He becomes confused, however, when he is involved in possibly miraculous events himself! Written by George S. Davis
Heavenly Pursuits
1986 · 9 votes
Movie10.0DramaTV MovieCarl is a US Navy Shore patrol officer who is based at the Holy Loch naval base in Scotland. Armed only with a nightstick, his primary function is to ensure that sailors on shore leave do not become too rowdy, and to provide help to sailors in need of assistance. Carl is married to a local girl and their relationship is at breaking point - she wants to leave Scotland and settle in America while he wants to remain in Scotland. With his brother-in-law Willie, who is already estranged from his wife and under threat of redundancy from his shipyard job, the two men forge a friendship to help each other through.
Down Where the Buffalo Go
1988 · 1 votes
MovieComedyA dreary Scottish seaside village is hit by an unexpected heatwave.
Doom and Gloom
1997
Movie7.0DramaTV MovieAnnie Kirk's life is in chaos. She is broke, unemployed, can't pay her poll tax and has two boyfriends she wants to be shot of. She is determined to break out, but how can she get the cash? Annie dreams up an ingenious plan - having a baby. The plan has alarming consequences.
Dream Baby
1989 · 1 votes
Movie8.0MusicComedyIn this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country music scene in an unsentimental portrait of Glaswegian life and culture. Local food and wine correspondent Frank McClusky falls in love with waitress Cissie Crouch. Unfortunately for him, she’s the wife of a convict, who is serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. As Frank’s life becomes more embroiled with Cissie’s he goes on a mission to track down the guilty men.
Your Cheatin' Heart
1990 · 2 votes
Series4
TV6.0DramaA series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.
The Play on One
1988 · 3 votes
TV7.3DramaFocuses on manic-depressive psychiatrist Daniel Nash, and the Glasgow mental hospital where he works.
Psychos
1999 · 4 votes
TV7.7DramaJo Jo is an Edinburgh Goodfella with a sharp mind and a cavalier attitude to law. In the bleak, edgy climate of the 1980s, Jo Jo is seen by many on the estate as a hero – out-manoeuvring the police while supporting his close-knit family. What is it that draws the charming and confident Jo Jo to Lorraine, a vulnerable woman obsessed by Marilyn Monroe? What figure from his past is fuelling his fantasies and driving him towards darker crimes and the quicksand of heroin? Can Jo Jo look after himself when he doesn't know who he is?
Looking After Jo Jo
1998 · 6 votes
TV4.0Five-show series of unrelated comedy pilots.
Bunch Of Five
1992 · 1 votes