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Poor Cow
Description
18-year-old Joy starts her catalogue of bad choices by running away from home with Tom. When her son goes missing, she briefly comes to grips with what is most important to her.
18-year-old Joy starts her catalogue of bad choices by running away from home with Tom. When her son goes missing, she briefly comes to grips with what is most important to her.
Actors:
Muriel Hunt,
Ellis Dale,
George Sewell,
Muriel Hunte,
John Bindon,
Stevie King,
John Halstead,
Will Stampe,
Winnie Holman,
Simon King,
Ron Pember,
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Muriel Hunt
Ellis Dale
5 May 1930, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UK
George Sewell
31 August 1924, Hoxton, London, England, UK
Muriel Hunte
John Bindon
4 October 1943, London, England, UK
Stevie King
John Halstead
Will Stampe
7 October 1920, Hackney, London, England, UK
Winnie Holman
13 May 1910, Camberwell, Surrey, England, UK
Simon King
Ron Pember
11 April 1934, Plaistow, London, England, UK
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Ken Loach
Ken Loach
17 June 1936, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
Country:
United Kingdom
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March 14, 2015
An argument can certainly be made for sex in movies that try to approach seriously the problems of the young; and this one, which begins so frankly with maternity, seems to have become quite nervous about things physical right after the credits came on.
June 26, 2016
Moody, poetic and artful. Another side of Ken Loach.
March 14, 2015
Poor Cow is certainly a gritty portrayal of life on the breadline in the late Sixties, shot in a documentary style, but that does not mean that it is wholly downbeat.
June 24, 2016
An early gem from the social realist movement.
June 20, 2016
A time-capsule character study of great warmth and compassion.
March 14, 2015
Despite its scruffy scene and downhill theme, Poor Cow is not really another of England's angry proletarian tragedies. The film tells its story with humanity that is never sentimental and humor that never jokes.
March 14, 2015
Not even Carol White as Joy, glowing with vitality and beautifully modulating the heroine's different moods, can make of Poor Cow more than a superficial, slightly patronising incursion into the nether realms of social realism.
March 14, 2015
In the end, the few good moments (as when the girl tends bar, cares for her child and shares confidences with Terence Stamp) are lost in the mess of everything else.
June 23, 2016
This has to be seen on the big screen.
February 23, 2012
Kenneth Loach uses an improvisatory technique in all this, and it largely works. Thesps were given the gist and trend of the dialog, and permitted to embroider it with their own words.