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Guardian Unlimited Film | | Leave me alone (1180 words) |
 | The remark was tossed away at the end of a press conference to promote his new drama for the BBC, Looking After Jo Jo, but it still managed to make the sports pages of every Scottish paper. |
| Looking After Jo Jo bears a superficial resemblance to Trainspotting - 'Hey man, it's just like Hill Street Blues,' one character enthuses as he watches his mate shoot up for the first time - but it doesn't have the movie's ambivalence towards drugs. |
| It had same atmosphere as the place I was brought up in.' Despite a cortege-paced narrative, Looking After Jo Jo has enough wit and moral backbone to take its place alongside other recent gems in Scottish drama. |
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