Care

TV Movie
2000
1h 45m

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A troubled boy (Steven Mackintosh) endures physical abuse by the staffers at a children's home.A troubled boy (Steven Mackintosh) endures physical abuse by the staffers at a children's home.A troubled boy (Steven Mackintosh) endures physical abuse by the staffers at a children's home.

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7.6/10

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Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 12 wins & 3 nominations total

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10gemmamclenaghan

Can anyone tell me the Radiohead song at the end of this film please I've been trying to find it.

Hi this was the best thing I've watched I was only 10 when I watched this with my mum who's suddenly passed so I'm desperate to find the song at the end of the movie she loved it and I would like to listen and I would really love to watch it again but seems impossible ? Please help.

10maggie-9

Unbearably sad with a harrowing performance by Steven Mackintosh

I am not sure what the previous reviewer meant by saying that something in this film was amusing. Amusing it is not. But it grabs you and pulls you in and you can't stop watching. Steven Mackintosh is superb and his last scene was so sad. The loyal strength of his girlfriend is also immensely touching.

Quite a number of important points are made about problems like child abuse. The most important is the way lawyers and insurance companies can push an organisation into a cover-up. Another is that, hard as this might be to accept, Davey and the others would have been better off if the case had never been investigated. It is giving evidence and not being believed which pushes him to the edge, not the original abuse. A terrible dilemma.

id247

Mackintosh and Bird deserve every plaudit.

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

2qui_j

Poor script and bad acting

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!

10nsvsv99

A must-see!

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!

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Epilogue: "42 out of 52 police forces in Britain are currently investigating allegations of sexual abuse in children's homes. They are: Lincolnshire Operation Diamond, North Yorkshire Operation Pudsy, Sussex Operation Blast, Staffordshire Operation Thor, Gwent Operation Flight, Avon & Somerset Operation React, South Wales Operation Goldfinch, Suffolk, Devon & Cornwall Operation Lentisk, Hampshire Dorset, Kent, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Strathclyde, Essex, Grampian, Dunfries & Galloway, Metropolitan West Midlands, Hertfordshire, Northumbria, Avon & Somerset, Thames Valley, West Mercia, Fife, West Yorkshire, Bedfordshire, Cheshire, Leicester Humberside, South Wales, Lothian & Borders, Greater Manchester Operation Goldfinch, Wiltshire, Norfolk Gloucester, Mercyside Operation Care, North Wales, Derbyshire, Lancashire Operation Nevada, Nottinghamshire."