Ben & Lucy

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Overview

Recovering alcoholic comedian Ben and his hard-partying art-student daughter Lucy find their lives uncannily mirroring each other as they wrestle with addiction, fractured relationships, and the elusive hope of self-reinvention.

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Steven Cree

Ben

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Robert Carlyle

Dan

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Stuart Martin

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