Word: loach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...BRITAIN BEEN OVERRUN BY RODENTS lately, or is it just British movies? In Truly, Madly, Deeply, Juliet Stevenson spent a lot of time in bed with large, scruffy rats. The vermin abound too in RIFF-RAFF, a rambling comedy from director Ken Loach. Stevie (Robert Carlyle), an ex-con finding construction work in London, falls in love with a pretty girleen (Emer McCourt) who wants to be a saloon singer. If this sounds like the plot of The Crying Game, don't blame scripter Bill Jesse; Riff-Raff was made a year before Neil Jordan's gender bender. Loach...
HIDDEN AGENDA. This contentious melodrama blames British intelligence for everything from political murders in Northern Ireland to sabotage of the Wilson and Heath governments. But even conspiracy buffs may find it hard to be stirred by Ken Loach's dour direction. Paranoia deserves better than this...