Flashbacks of a Fool is a 2008 British drama directed by Baillie Walsh and starring Daniel Craig as Joe Scott, a washed-up Hollywood actor living a hollow life of sex, drugs and excess in Los Angeles — until news of his childhood best friend Boots' death sends him spiraling into an extended flashback to a 1970s British seaside town. As a teenager, Joe was having a secret affair with Evelyn, his mother's married friend — and while the two were consumed by their forbidden passion, Joe was supposed to be watching Evelyn's young daughter Jane, who wandered off and was killed by an old sea mine on the beach. Crushed by guilt and unable to face the consequences, Joe fled and never looked back — and the film becomes his