Win Patrick Melrose on DVD

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The winner is Emma Swain (via website). Congratulations!

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We have a copy of Patrick Melrose on DVD to give away to one of our readers, courtesy of Acorn Media.

Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) returns to our TV screens with a mind-blowing performance as the eponymous Patrick Melrose, a deeply troubled man struggling with his past and out-of-control drug-fuelled present. Co-starring Hugo Weaving (The Lord of the Rings) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), this Sky original production is based on the much-loved novels by Edward St Aubyn and adapted by renowned writer David Nicholls (One Day).

We first meet Patrick Melrose the professional gadabout and hedonist extraordinaire in the early 1980s. He’s a witty, privileged twentysomething who’s partial to pretty much every narcotic imaginable, but when news of his father’s death breaks, who knows if it’s the heroin or their terrible relationship that causes him to react with such indifference.

Patrick Melrose is a witty, well-bred twentysomething who’s partial to pretty much every narcotic imaginable. When news of his father’s death breaks, who knows if it’s the heroin or their terrible relationship that causes him to react with such indifference. Patrick must dutifully collect his father’s remains from New York, where, he confidently declares, he will get clean. But getting sober in the Big Apple is less a piece of cake, more a rancid slice of cold turkey and he’s soon hitting the city’s seedier back streets to score a fix of anything and everything on offer.

The south of France. In the Melroses’ sprawling sun-kissed chateau the seeds of a lifetime of discontent are sown. As a young Patrick suffers at the hands of his abusive father, he longs for his mother to provide any kind of rescue, but a tense dinner party reveals the true extent of his father’s tyranny.

Patrick dutifully goes to collect his father’s remains from New York, where, he confidently declares, he will get clean. But that is easier said than done. He’s soon hitting the city’s seedier back streets to score a fix of anything and everything on offer.

Prepare for the extreme highs and the crashing lows of Patrick Melrose in this riveting drama featuring a performance of a lifetime from one of Britain’s acting greats Benedict Cumberbatch.

Release Date: 16 July 2018 RRP: £24.99

Running Time: 300 mins approx. Certificate: 18 tbc

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