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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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."

Connections
Features Fawlty Towers (1975)

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Road Rage
(uncredited)
Written by Cerys Matthews and Mark Roberts
Performed by Catatonia

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10/10

A Wonderful Portrayal of a Harrowing Subject

For the past few years, stories of child-abuse within childrens homes has been in the news throughout England and Wales.

This story concerns Davey Younger, a mischevious lad who's put in care for a tad of trouble-making, and is subjected to unspeakable horrors by the people who are supposed to be looking after him. Davey finds that everyone that he turns to simply doesn't want to know or simply doesn't care. Even the suicide of his friend John isn't enough to cause an investigation.

Then, we see Davey as a grown man, trying to forge a relationship with single-mum Pauline and her three children. He seems normal to the outside world, and even to Pauline, but when the story breaks in the news, Davey begins to crack.

Steven Mackintosh deals with his role as Davey wonderfully, portraying him as the mixed up, confused person that he is. This film is excrutiating to watch and the ending is unbearable. However, director Antonia Bird deals with both the subject and the film extremely well (just as she did in Priest(1994)) and presents a wonderful film for those who can actually bear to watch it.