Care

The director Antonia Bird has a history of dealing brilliantly with big issues, such as in the excellent Priest which looked at religion, homosexuality and child abuse, and told its story in a very accessible way. She got an amazing performance out of Linus Roache. And this project is no different. Its presentation of one man's disintegration - an equally impressive Steven Mackintosh - and inability to lead a functional adult life because of the trauma he has suffered is incredibly affecting. The drama includes both his abuse at the hands of men who were his carers and the consequences of that abuse when he's trying to sustain a relationship. The end scenes have stayed with me, even though I saw this six years ago, and their impact is increased by the very fact of their indicating just how devastating abuse is. I don't think you can ever really make too many excellent films about taboo subjects, given that this problem has never really gone away or been out of the news. In contrast to this other reviewer, I'd highly recommend watching Care. Brilliantly directed and performed. But not happy viewing.

I watched this film for the first time on Polish TV last night, and it blew me away.

I've been an admirer of Steven Mackintosh's performances for many years, but this is his tour-de-force.

Like many people director Antonia Bird caught my attention in 1994 when Bird was premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Together Bird and Mackintosh, well supported by an excellent cast, create a harrowing, shocking and nerve-shattering drama that only us Brits could make with such brutal honesty.

Well done all of you involved. 10/10

This is your average BBC TV movie of the 1990s and 2000s that is so badly done so as to make little sense. The editing is all over the place, the timeline fluid to the point where the viewer is jerked back and forth. While the message of the movie is an important one, and the story sad, the poor quality production makes a mockery of both! Low budget productions can often be good.....this is horrible!

This movie is very difficult to watch, but it ought to be seen by everyone. It's hard to believe such evil people exist, that would treat kids like this. But they do. And the rest of us, the society, we fail in helping the abused because we don't want to know what's going on. The acting is very good in general, but Macintosh is simply brilliant!

I was quite shocked to see how damn good this was especially considering Made forTV movies are made for TV for a reason, they suck! Antonia Bird's quite fast moving, yet thoroughly intriguing direction kept me on the edge of my seat through some quite dramatic but not graphic molestation sequences. Child abuse seems to be quite a fashion in recent hollywood, and it's good to see the BBC catching on and ripping them off!

Great performances from Steve Mackintosh as Davey as a grown up, who was pretty sweet in Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels! Also a damn fine performance from Alun Evans, who played Gareth, the kid who falls down on his knees and cries like a girl!