Ladybird Ladybird (1994)
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A single mother struggles against the British social service system and her own troubled past in director Ken Loach's brutally realistic drama. Coming from a background of abuse and poverty, the hardened Maggie (Crissy Rock) has already suffered through a series of painful romances when she… More A single mother struggles against the British social service system and her own troubled past in director Ken Loach's brutally realistic drama. Coming from a background of abuse and poverty, the hardened Maggie (Crissy Rock) has already suffered through a series of painful romances when she falls for the caring Jorge (Vladimir Vega), and they begin a loving but turbulent relationship. Their situation takes a turn for the worse when Maggie becomes pregnant, for her troubled past has left her branded an unfit mother by the government, with four previous children already in foster care. Determined to keep their child, Maggie and Jorge begin a difficult fight against the government bureaucracy, made all the more difficult by Maggie's volatile temperament. ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi
Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Crissy Rock renders the best, toughest performance by an actress this year in Loach's relentlessly grim, alomost too painful to watch drama about a woman who loses six of her children to the state's social service authorities--not for the squeamish.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A bleak drama.
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Cast
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Crissy Rock
as Maggie Conlan
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Vladimir Vega
as Jorge Arellano
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Ray Winstone
as Simon
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Sandie Lavelle
as Mairead
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Mauricio González Venegas
as Adrian
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Jason Stracey
as Sean
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Luke Brown
as Mickey
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Lily Farrell
as Serena
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Bruce Alexander
as Lawyer
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Linda Ross
as Maggie's mother
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Tom Keller
as Social worker
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Stephen Webber
as Lawyer
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Clare Pekins
as Jill
