Little Voice is a 1998 British drama film with music written and directed by Mark Herman. The screenplay is based on the play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartwright.
Set primarily in a working-class home in Scarborough where the fuses constantly blow and what little food there is in the refrigerator has turned rancid, the film narrates the story of reclusive, shy, agoraphobic young Laura Hoff, commonly known as Little Voice or LV, wh...
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Little Voice is a 1998 British drama film with music written and directed by Mark Herman. The screenplay is based on the play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartwright.
Set primarily in a working-class home in Scarborough where the fuses constantly blow and what little food there is in the refrigerator has turned rancid, the film narrates the story of reclusive, shy, agoraphobic young Laura Hoff, commonly known as Little Voice or LV, who seems to display many of the symptoms of selective mutism, a rare anxiety disorder similar to social phobia. Little Voice was given her sobriquet because of her conspicuous coyness. She spends her time obsessively listening to her deceased father's extensive array of vintage recordings by such all-time singing greats as Edith Piaf, Judy Garland, and Shirley Bassey. Impersonating their performances is her only source of unalloyed joy, life, and escape from her alcoholic, cantankerous mother, Mari. Typically the wanton and lecherous scarlet...
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