The Kid (update 21 August 2022)

 

The Kid 2010 update August 2022

• Director: Nick Moran
• Based on the book by Kevin Lewis
• Cast: Rupert Friend, Natascha McElhone, Ioan Gruffud, Tom Burke, David O’Hara, Jodie Whittaker, Bernard Hill, James Fox, Augustus Prew, Con O’Neill, Shirley Ann Field, Johnny Palmiero
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Rupert Friend – The Young Victoria, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Libertine
• Natascha McElhone – Ladies in Lavender, Solaris, The Other Boleyn Girl, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Surviving Picasso, Cold Lazarus, Karaoke, Absolutely Fabulous
• Ioan Gruffud – Fireflies in the Garden, Amazing Grace, The Fantastic Four, King Arthur, Very Annie Mary, Great Expectations, Titanic, Wilde
• Tom Burke – The Invisible Woman, Great Expectations, The Libertine
• David O’Hara – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Hotel Rwanda, Braveheart
• Jodie Whittaker – Doctor Who, Journeyman, Trust Me, Broadchurch, Adult Life Skills, Black Sea, Good Vibrations, Attack the Block, Marchlands, Cranford, Perrier’s Bounty
• Bernard Hill - Wolf Hall, The Lord of the Rings, Valkyria, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titanic, Shirley Valentine, Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3, Richard III, Gandhi, I Claudius
• James Fox - London Spy, Merlin, Sherlock Holmes, Charley and the Chocolate Factory, The Remains of the Day, Isadora
• Augustus Prew – About a Boy
• Con O’Neill – Frank, Wallander
• Shirley Ann Field – My Beautiful Laundromat, Alfie
• Sounded good. Grim but good.
• Seen: 4 June 2016   

        Screaming, drunken, abusive parents turn young Kevin Lewis into a very problematic foster child. Along the way he meets understanding and supportive adults but bad decisions as a young adult and some more hard knocks lead to even more bad decisions. Crooked partners, booze, pills, lost love, debts, suicide attempt.

       And then it ends happily. It’s based on a true story, so we have to believe it.

       It’s quite good actually. 

3 ½ * of 5

Update 21 August 2022 – not much to add or change. I’d give it the same rating. The main change is that Jodie Whittaker became Doctor Who, thus inspiring us to see many more of her films and series.