The Kid 2010

6 June 2016

The Kid 2010

• 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, The Oher Boleyn Girl, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Surviving Picasso, Cold Lazarus, Karaoke, Absolutely Fabulous
• Ioan Gruffud – Amazing Grace, 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 – Cranford
• 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