Monroe Class of '76 psychological thriller   »           «  
  Late at night, a terrified Pat Fisher is causing mayhem as cars swerve to avoid him on a busy motorway. His misery ends when a speeding lorry sends him flying over the central reservation.

Detective Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle), and his partner DC Steven Grant (Daniel Mays) are assigned to investigate the circumstances surrounding this apparent suicide. But they don’t have much to go on. CCTV footage from the petrol station where Pat parked his car reveals little other than the fact that he seemed disturbed. 		 
In Pat’s apartment they find a series of letters and memorabilia concerning a child’s abduction and murder in a small coastal town, Cornton, back in 1976. This seems ominous but Grant is loathe to look at Pat’s ‘suicide’ in any depth.   To him Fisher was crazy; no other explanation needed. But as Monroe digs deeper he discovers that Amy Irving’s murder was something of an obsession for Pat Fisher.
  Several other photographs are among the cuttings, including an old school photograph from 1976, four rows of smiling infants. Several of the smiling faces have been circled with felt pen, and Pat has added the ominous footnote: all gone. In the top left hand of the picture an arrow points to the head of one small boy. Above this, the scribbled question: who was he?

Subsequent photos of that same class lead Monroe to realise that Pat's paranoia was fuelled by one particular individual - the same small boy who appears in the class photograph in 1976, and, so it would seem, in other photographs years later. 		  But none of the survivors from that fated class of ‘76 can identify him, not even their teacher - who can put a name to every other young face.

Monroe is compelled to continue the investigation, even though he has been directly ordered to hand the case over but what he doesn’t realise is that his investigation could be laying him open to attack from the same forces that have preyed on the class of '76 for almost 3 decades

 

  
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Monroe and Grant

 

 

Running time
2 x 90 minutes

Starring
Robert Carlyle
Daniel Mays
Claire Skinner
Anton Lesser
Pip Torrens

A Zenith Entertainment Production

Executive producer
Adrian Bate

Written by John Ireland

Directed by Ashley Pearce

Produced by Matthew Bird