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The Children Act
Description
In order to save the life of a kind 17 year old boy, Adam, who suffers from Leukemia, and needs a blood transfusion, Fiona Maye, a judge at the family law court, who does her best, in order to save his life, as his parents refuse to make that blood transfusion, according to their religious beliefs, so she tries to make a new law, includes the exception of the religious beliefs in the case of treatment.
In order to save the life of a kind 17 year old boy, Adam, who suffers from Leukemia, and needs a blood transfusion, Fiona Maye, a judge at the family law court, who does her best, in order to save his life, as his parents refuse to make that blood transfusion, according to their religious beliefs, so she tries to make a new law, includes the exception of the religious beliefs in the case of treatment.
Actors:
Honey Holmes,
Alex Blake,
Amelie Green,
Jason Watkins,
Melody Green,
Michael Thomas,
Claire Ashton
Honey Holmes
Alex Blake
25 November 1974, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
Amelie Green
Jason Watkins
30 July 1966, Albrighton, Shropshire, England, UK
Melody Green
Michael Thomas
Claire Ashton
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Richard Eyre
Country:
United Kingdom, United States
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September 11, 2017
... "The Children Act" is that rarest of things: an adult drama, written and interpreted with a sensitivity to mature human concerns...
September 09, 2018
The melodrama is piled on during the final act to an unbearable degree with material not even Emma Thompson can save.
August 26, 2018
File this under missed opportunity. More often than not, it feels like a pretentious episode of Holby City. Or a shallow take on John Huston's The Dead.
August 28, 2018
The film thinks itself very grown-up and, like many films that think themselves that, plays out its confrontations in the style of a middlebrow play.
September 07, 2018
he Children Act works strongest as a tight character study of the central female figure, elevated to higher ground by the astonishing lead performance.
September 11, 2017
The two central performances could hardly be better. Thompson works here with remarkable subtlety.
August 28, 2018
The pale, sharp-featured Whitehead brings an appropriately feverish intensity to Adam, who looks less like a typical 21st-century teenager than Lord Byron with a backpack.
August 27, 2018
What makes it not just a feature film but a feature film worth catching (if you're in a cerebral frame of mind) is the quality of Thompson's performance.
September 22, 2017
Like so many of the movies that stem from McEwan's novels, "The Children Act" is a soulful and sophisticated adult drama that peers into the void between the beauty of ideals and the cost of living by them.
August 27, 2018
The Children Act can feel sluggish and melodramatic, weighed down with the use of superfluous flashbacks, letter-reading voice-overs, and the repeated use of stodgy Bach passages. Intelligent, but airless.
September 13, 2017
If Emma Thompson can't make this drama about a family-court judge conflicted over her own decisions and the precarious state of her own family into something interesting and meaningful, then no one can. And she can't.
September 10, 2018
It's worth seeing precisely for the heat of the arguments that you can enjoy after the screening and, above all, for Emma Thompson.
