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Boys town is not the movie to see for the inside view on child- welfare problems. Ladybird, Ladybird is. This English drama about a worst-case child-custody scenario may show those who make social policy how hard it is to legislate love, lust, neglect, despair and other real-family values. Ken Loach's film, written by Rona Munro and based on a true story, horrifies and edifies in equal measure...
...novel. He makes every one of his words matter; Felicia's Journey is packed with extraordinary passages. Here is a look at the homeless, to whose ranks Felicia has been driven: ``Hidden away, the people of the streets drift into sleep induced by alcohol or agitated by despair, into dreams that carry them back to the lives that once were theirs.'' To take Felicia's journey is to encounter an exemplary guide...
This English drama about the problems of a working-class mother in raising her children shows how hard it is to "legislate love, lust, neglect, despair and real-family values" says TIME movie critic Richard Corliss. Based on a true story, it traces the life of Maggie Conlon, who has had four kids by four men, been battered and had her children snatched from her by Social Services. Maggie gets a break when she meets a Paraguayan refugee, but she is unable to make the most of this relationship. Corliss highly recommends this movie saying it is "more painful...
...novel. He makes every one of his words matter; Felicia's Journey is packed with extraordinary passages. Here is a look at the homeless, to whose ranks Felicia has been driven: "Hidden away, the people of the streets drift into sleep induced by alcohol or agitated by despair, into dreams that carry them back to the lives that once were theirs." To take Felicia's journey is to encounter an exemplary guide...
...Alan Ayckbourn, the consummate games player among modern writers for the theater. This time (in a production that brought his Scarborough company to Chicago) the stage is a time machine, carrying women 20 years forward or backward in their hectic lives. But beneath the formal ingenuity, Ayckbourn finds depth, despair and, finally, redemption. A serious farce from a man who takes comedy into the shadows...