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The Children Act
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This movie revolves around the life story of Fiona Maye, a judge at the family law court, whose life turns down, when her marriage becomes in dilemma according to her work, but the big struggle she faces is the case of Adam, a 17 year old boy suffering from Leukemia, and in a need to blood transfusion, the thing that refused by his parents, according to their religious beliefs, so she does her best to save his life.
This movie revolves around the life story of Fiona Maye, a judge at the family law court, whose life turns down, when her marriage becomes in dilemma according to her work, but the big struggle she faces is the case of Adam, a 17 year old boy suffering from Leukemia, and in a need to blood transfusion, the thing that refused by his parents, according to their religious beliefs, so she does her best to save his life.
Actors:
Robin Hooper,
Toni Beard,
Alex Felton,
Dominic Carter,
Stanley Tucci,
Dywayne Thomas,
Michele Austin,
Sharon Bower,
Paul Bigley,
Claire Ashton,
Peter Coe,
...»
Robin Hooper
Toni Beard
Alex Felton
Dominic Carter
Stanley Tucci
11 November 1960, Peekskill, New York, USA
Dywayne Thomas
Michele Austin
Sharon Bower
Paul Bigley
Claire Ashton
Peter Coe
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Richard Eyre
Country:
United Kingdom, United States
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August 27, 2018
The Children Act can feel sluggish and melodramatic, weighed down with the use of superfluous flashbacks, letter-reading voice-overs, and the repeated use of stodgy Bach passages. Intelligent, but airless.
August 28, 2018
The pale, sharp-featured Whitehead brings an appropriately feverish intensity to Adam, who looks less like a typical 21st-century teenager than Lord Byron with a backpack.
August 26, 2018
File this under missed opportunity. More often than not, it feels like a pretentious episode of Holby City. Or a shallow take on John Huston's The Dead.
September 11, 2017
... "The Children Act" is that rarest of things: an adult drama, written and interpreted with a sensitivity to mature human concerns...
August 27, 2018
What makes it not just a feature film but a feature film worth catching (if you're in a cerebral frame of mind) is the quality of Thompson's performance.
September 09, 2018
The melodrama is piled on during the final act to an unbearable degree with material not even Emma Thompson can save.
September 10, 2018
It's worth seeing precisely for the heat of the arguments that you can enjoy after the screening and, above all, for Emma Thompson.
September 13, 2017
If Emma Thompson can't make this drama about a family-court judge conflicted over her own decisions and the precarious state of her own family into something interesting and meaningful, then no one can. And she can't.
August 28, 2018
The film thinks itself very grown-up and, like many films that think themselves that, plays out its confrontations in the style of a middlebrow play.
September 22, 2017
Like so many of the movies that stem from McEwan's novels, "The Children Act" is a soulful and sophisticated adult drama that peers into the void between the beauty of ideals and the cost of living by them.
September 07, 2018
he Children Act works strongest as a tight character study of the central female figure, elevated to higher ground by the astonishing lead performance.
September 11, 2017
The two central performances could hardly be better. Thompson works here with remarkable subtlety.