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Ladybird Ladybird (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Lady bird
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
102 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1994 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Ken Loach

Written By:
Rona Munro

Actors:
Crissy Rock ..... Maggie Conlan
Vladimir Vega ..... Jorge
Sandie Lavelle ..... Mairead
Mauricio Venegas ..... Adrian
Ray Winstone ..... Simon
Claire Perkins ..... Jill
Jason Stracey ..... Sean
Luke Brown ..... Mickey
Lily Farrell ..... Serena
Scottie Moore ..... Maggie's father
Linda Ross ..... Maggie's mother
Kim Hartley ..... Maggie, aged 5
Jimmy Batten ..... Karaoke's compere
Sue Sawyer ..... Foster's mother
Pamela Hunt ..... Mrs. Higgs

Synopsis:

Maggie Conlan is a unmarried mother. She had four children from four different men, that she left because they all beat her. The only night she left her children alone at home, they are hurt by a fire. So the social services take them away. She unsuccessfully fights to have them back. One day, she meets Jorge, a man that will simply love her without violence, and it seems she will now have a normal happy family life. But their new-born baby is also confiscated by the social services... Based on a true story.

This Ken Loach docu-drama relates the story of a British womanUs fight with Social Services over the care of her children. Maggie has a history of bouncing from one abusive relationship to another. She has four children, of four different fathers, who came to the attention of Social Services when they were injured in a fire. Subsequently, Maggie was found to be an 'unfit mother' and her children were removed from her care. She finally meets the man of her dreams, a Paraguayan expatriate, and they start a family together. Unfortunately, Social Services seems unwilling to accept that her life has changed and rends them from their new children. She and Jorge together, and separately, fight Social Services, Immigration, and other government bureaucrats in a desperate battle to make their family whole again.

Inspired by a real event, a love story as only Loach could tell it. Maggie has 4 children by 4 different fathers.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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