Forever Young (1983 film)

Forever Young is a 1983 film US release 1986 written by Ray Connolly and directed by David Drury for Channelas part of their First Love series.

The events of the past are mirrored in the present day. Father Michael is good friends with Mary Karen Archer, previously in Giro City and her son Paul Liam Holt who idolises him and wants to become a priest himself. However Jimmy and Mary get together. The IMDB entry for Forever Young describes this as an act of revenge by Jimmy. Paul discovers them making love and runs away to the church. Michael insists that Paul return home. Thus Michael loses the friendship of Jimmy, Karen and Paul and at the end of the film he is shown bereft.The film is full of music from the 1950s. The lyrics to the theme music to the film, the song Forever Young, were written by Ray Connolly to a tune based on Farewell to Stromness by Peter Maxwell Davies. ........

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