Letter to Brezhnev, 1985

“Everyone in Liverpool is walking around with a film script in their pocket.”

Letter to Brezhnev put Liverpool (and Kirkby) on the cinematic map in 1985.

The BFI website calls it "one of the key British films of the 1980s". The Post calls it “Liverpool’s greatest rom-com”.

I called it “a comedy-romance” because the term rom-com hadn’t been invented yet.

From my memoir:

“Margi Clarke once said “Everyone in Liverpool is walking around…