star rating represent saturday night friday night friday morning sunday night monday morning ray ( ray winstone ) have a criminal past and have have problem with alcohol and be now form a drug habit that be make him paranoid and prone to domestic violence to his wife valerie ( kathy burke ) who try to hold the family together but end up come off more like a doormat . meanwhile and her mother janet ( laila morse ) be aware of ray son and billy ( charlie creed mile ) and his escalate drug habit that be send him off the rail . the film follow these despairable character a they tredge along with their life . it be say that the british seem to enjoy be miserable and and that would include watch film that entertain them this way . film like nil by mouth highlight this . it a tale of a broken family and torn apart by crime and poverty and booze and drug and the kind jeremy kyle would lap up like a three course meal . it be also essentially a tale of self destructive men and three generation apart and each copy the other and tear a family apart and woman try to hold it together and despite not be strong enough . if you pick up a little of what it about from the off set and you can see it doesn not promise to be cheerful view from the start and it certainly doesn not disappoint in this . it true what everyone say about the performance and and the lead star and winstone and burke and do deliver some great acting . we see winstone lose it with his wife and beat her senseless after some more coke induce paranoia and break down during a phone conversation with her and unleash a typical arsenal of f and c word when she refuse to let him see his kid . likewise and in a private moment and we see burke skillfully lose her composure on a staircase and the full impact of the night before kick in . this be another of those film where there no plot to follow and a such and just a real life feel of these hopeless life carry on from one day to the next . it be acclaim by many ( include the baftas . ) but it really be just too grim and bleak for me . i have no right to criticize it for this and know what i know about it from the off set and but sadly this be how i find it . .