When the Dog Bites (movie)

When the Dog Bites (movie)

  • Production country: United Kingdom
  • Producer: Penny Woolcock
  • Production companies: British Film Institute Production Board
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release date: 9/18/1988
  • Run time: 50 min.

Movie description

“Film questions whether the encouragement of very low paid jobs and schemes - both in general and specifically how they function in the area affected by the closure of the Consett steelworks in 1980 - is a sufficiently visionary response to the question of survival in post-industrial Britain. Local people talk about their experiences, an escapologist performs and a drag act sings. Plus drama sequence in which Bill tells Rose that making a fortune is easy.” - BFI.