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."

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Features Fawlty Towers (1975)

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Written by Cerys Matthews and Mark Roberts
Performed by Catatonia

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10/10

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.