Release Date: December 3, 2006 Director: Ken Loach Producer: Tony Garnett Starring: David Bradley, Brian Glover, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Bob Bowes, Bernard Atha, Joey Kaye Genre: Drama Running Time: 110 minutes
Friday, July 31, 2026 1:15:09 AM | (Age Not Specified)
A wonderful but also frequently painful to watch film. If you think this is just a feel-good movie about a boy befriending a falcon, you are wrong. It is that, as emotional and deep as it can get, but also a harsh criticism of the British educational system at the time with the self-glorifying absolutist and sometimes sadistic teachers (with that one exception). It‘s also an at times documentary-like family drama in a struggling 1960‘s mining community, overall a very powerful film. Good acting, especially David Bradley as Billy Casper, and great cinematography.
