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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Ken Loach
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Actors:
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Brian Glover,
Colin Welland,
Bernard Atha,
Ted Carroll,
David Bradley,
Freddie Fletcher,
Lynne Perrie,
Bob Bowes,
Laurence Bould,
Joey Kaye
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Duration:
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110 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)101
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Plot Summary:
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Bullied at votaries and ignored and misused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper (David Bradley), a 15-year-old working-classify Yorkshire slave, tames and trains his cherished kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged on his English dominie Mr. Farthing (Colin Welland) and his companion students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his dispirited existence, until adversity strikes.
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Kes
Loach transformed Barry Hines's plucky novel 'A Kestrel also in behalf of a Knave' into a moving, searingly brutal and frank film. Billy Casper (Bradley) is an touchy juvenile, stuck in a drab Yorkshire mining municipality. Familiar with sentience is contemptible and form almost as evil. A glimmer of hope is offered when Billy finds a babe kestrel, which soon becomes the fuzzy of his flair. The relationship is all-consuming for the purpose Billy and within it he finds a vocation, something about which he can at model be hot and articulate. At the centre of Loach's film is a remarkable, utterly real performance from Bradley, who was at the time of filming himself a Barnsley schoolboy with no acting experience. He projects a impression of brut...
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