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The Children Act

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This movie follows the struggles of Fiona Maye, a judge at the family law court, who because of her work, is about to lose her marriage, but she left everything and takes the case of Adam, a 17 year old boy, who suffers from Leukemia and in a big need to blood transfusion, but according his parents religious beliefs, he can not get recovered.

Genre:

Drama

Actors:

Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Ben Chaplin, Fionn Whitehead, Rosie Cavaliero, Honey Holmes, Jason Watkins, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rupert Vansittart, Anthony Calf, Toni Beard, ...»

Director:

Richard Eyre

Country:

United Kingdom, United States

Release:

2017

IMDb:

6.7

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Duration:

105 min

KEYWORDS:

#Ben Chaplin #Emma Thompson #Stanley Tucci #The Children Act

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ACTORS OF "The Children Act"

Emma Thompson

15 April 1959, Paddington, London, England, UK

Stanley Tucci

11 November 1960, Peekskill, New York, USA

Ben Chaplin

31 July 1970, London, England, UK

30 July 1966, Albrighton, Shropshire, England, UK

Nikki Amuka-Bird

27 February 1976, Nigeria

Rupert Vansittart

10 February 1958, Cranleigh, Surrey, England, UK

Anthony Calf

4 May 1959, Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Toni Beard

Nicholas Jones

3 April 1946, London, England, UK

29 March 1980, Tucuman, Argentina

1976, London, England, UK

25 November 1974, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK

Manuela Maletta

16 December 1975, Lecco, Italy

Stacha Hicks

Des McAleer

25 May 1952, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

June 10, 1977 in Ramat Gan, Israel

Radhika Aggarwal

Daniel Fritz

16 December 1984, Hamburg, Germany

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CREATORS OF "The Children Act"

Ian McEwan

21 June 1948, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK

HEROES OF "The Children Act"

Fiona Maye

Played by: Emma Thompson

Jack Maye

Played by: Stanley Tucci

Adam Henry

Played by: Fionn Whitehead

CRITICS OF "The Children Act"

The Mail on Sunday (UK)

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.

August 27, 2018

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Entertainment Weekly

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 28, 2018

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Flickering Myth

The melodrama is piled on during the final act to an unbearable degree with material not even Emma Thompson can save.

September 09, 2018

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Variety

... "The Children Act" is that rarest of things: an adult drama, written and interpreted with a sensitivity to mature human concerns...

September 11, 2017

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Irish Times

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.

August 28, 2018

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Film Inquiry

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 07, 2018

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London Evening Standard

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 26, 2018

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Hot Press

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.

August 27, 2018

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Hollywood Reporter

The two central performances could hardly be better. Thompson works here with remarkable subtlety.

September 11, 2017

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New Yorker

It's worth seeing precisely for the heat of the arguments that you can enjoy after the screening and, above all, for Emma Thompson.

September 10, 2018

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indieWire

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.

September 22, 2017

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TheWrap

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 13, 2017

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GALLERY OF "The Children Act"