49 Up
- NOT RATED
- Year:
- 2005
- 180 min
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I'm going to work
in Woolworth's.
When I grow up, I want
to be an astronaut.
When I get married, I would
like to have two children.
My heart's desire is
to see my daddy.
I don't want to answer that.
(narrator) This is no ordinary
outing to the zoo.
It's a very special occasion.
together for the very first time.
(screaming)
They're like any other children,
except that they come
from startlingly different
backgrounds.
Stop it at once.
We've brought these children together
because we wanted a glimpse of England
in the year 2000.
The shop steward and the
executive of the year 2000
(Michael Apted) In 1964,
World In Action made "Seven up!"
and we've been back to film
these children every seven years.
They are now 49.
Is it important to fight? Yes.
Tony was brought up
in the East End of London.
Want to be a jockey
when I grow up.
Yeah, I want to be a jockey
when I grow up.
At 14, he was already
an apprentice
at Tommy Gosling's
racing stable at Epsom.
At 15, he'd left school.
This is a photo finish,
when I rode at Newbury.
I'm the one with the white cap.
I was beaten a length
and a half off third,
and I had a photo finish.
(Michael) Do you
regret not making it?
I would have given my right arm
at the time to become a jockey,
but now...
Well, I wasn't good enough.
(Michael) What will you do if
you don't make it as a jockey?
I don't know.
If I knew I couldn't be one,
I'd get out of the game.
Wouldn't bother.
What do you think
you would do then?
Learn on taxis.
At 21, he was
on the knowledge,
and by 28, he owned his own cab.
It's surprising who
you pick up, you see.
I once met Kojak.
I picked him up.
And Warren Mitchell,
Alf Garnett, you know.
Have you got a girlfriend?
No.
Would you like to have
a girlfriend?
No.
You understand four F's?
Find 'em, feed 'em
and forget 'em.
The other "F" - I'll let you
use your own discriminish.
I mean, this one
I tried to do the 3 F's,
but I couldn't forget her.
I went to a discothque.
He was in the pub earlier on,
and afterwards we
went to a discothque.
And Tony was standing there,
and I just -
From there, I just - that was it.
(laughs)
Couldn't get rid of him.
(laughs)
We have our ups and downs.
No more than anyone else.
at a marriage.
I think all marriages
go through stages.
You can't stand each other.
You go through, you know -
I think, "Oh, god, I hate him.
I wish he'd get out." I do.
We've been to the
edge of the cliff
and looked over
a couple of times,
and we've always seemed
to sort of go back,
and we've sort of
stayed the course.
But I must say - I mean,
it's not easy being married.
By 42, Tony and Debbie
had left the East End
and moved to Woodford in Essex.
We were going to put a conservatory
here, but if you look along here,
we put a patio in and
the pond for the fish,
but the only thing I ever done
was I planted them three trees.
Well, since you was
last here, Michael...
We had small trees,
if you remember.
Now they've sort of grown a bit.
(Michael) So why
are the trees singed?
We was burning some
Rubbish at the back
and set light to the tree,
and there we all were,
sort of like throwing
and sadly enough,
it singed the tree.
At 49, they've taken out a second
mortgage on the London house
and sunk the money in
a holiday home in Spain.
I'm very pleased with the house.
I said the progress we made in the
little space of time that we've had
to work here and get it
all sort of shipshape
I think is done, really,
to the testament
of my wife Debbie.
As per usual.
(Michael laughs)
(Tony) Debbie went
to the furniture shop,
and she sort of picked
all the furniture.
All what you see is all
Debbie's choice of furniture
and her, really, sort of style.
The floor -
We were led to believe
that we had a choice of tiling,
whether it's a light beige
or, you know, light brown.
That's the first I've heard
that we had a choice,
'cause I would have had plain.
I've just gone into the neighbours'
house, and they've got all plain.
Well, there you go.
I never got told that.
He said it was a choice that we
had when we suggested to buy it,
so that was where
the mistake was made.
Because you don't listen.
Say that again.
You don't listen.
Can't hear you. (laughs)
Tony and Debbie still
work as London cabbies.
We sold our cabs because we are
going to spend more time out here.
So it's not really conducive
to own a cab, is it?
Because the cab will be left
out on the drive or, you know -
It's pointless, so we just
hired a cab independently now.
than I really ever have done,
but I feel that
it's for something.
Son, why do you want to be
a cab driver for, mate?
All the holidays in Spain
every year...
But, son, it's hard work out there.
You're not reaching me yet.
Not getting to you. No, you're
not getting to me. All right?
Now be bigger.
Dominate me, all right? Son...
At 28, Tony was taking
acting lessons.
Now he supplements his income
with occasional TV jobs.
(Tony) Oi!
That's all I got on me.
Mate, if I had a pound for every time
I've heard that, I'd be a rich man.
Get him!
A guy contacted me
from my agency,
from my acting agency,
and I got in touch with him.
And he writes plays, and he's
been inspired by your up programs,
which go all round the world,
and he saw it.
And we got together
and we wrote a biographical play
all about my life story.
We took one of these episodes over to
New York and done it on a play reading.
And I got up, playing
the lead role, you know,
and it just blew the roof off.
And we're looking for someone to
pick it up and put it on stage.
(woman) Would everybody please sit
round now, get on with their work?
I don't want to see
any backs to me.
Shouldn't be anybody
turning round.
Tony, do you hear as well?
Get on with your work
at the front.
Tony!
Don't turn round again.
There's only one ambition,
and, really, I want a baby son.
If I see my baby son, that will
be my ambition fulfilled.
No one knows that.
Only you know.
Debbie and Tony
Nicky, Jody and Perri.
It's an old-time profession,
as you know.
He's working for a firm,
and he's very happy
in his work, isn't he?
He's been brought up
very respectful to people,
very well-mannered person,
He's a hard worker.
Jody, I mean,
at this present time,
she's just - relies on us
a great deal, and...
She's been very scarred with
a relationship that she was in.
Her relationship with her
first love of her own life
was very turbulent,
but he's the father of her kid.
We're going to make sure
she gets through it.
And it's been quite a
strain on Debbie and I
to see her in that
sort of situation.
I'm very proud of Perri as well.
She got in the post office,
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