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Released , 'Children' stars Phillip Mawdsley, Robin Hooper, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley The movie has a runtime of about 47 min, and received a user score of 55 (out of 100) on TMDb, which compiled reviews from 26 well-known users.
Want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone."
'Children' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Criterion Channel .
The Terence Davies Trilogy
A trilogy of short films tell the life of Robert Tucker. "Children" (1976) looks at his birth and formative at an austere boy's school. The bleak environment is not aided by the loveless, violent domestic life he experiences. Nonetheless, his father's death has a major impact on him. In "Madonna and Child" (1980), he is a closeted homosexual working in a grim office and still living at home with his daunting mother. In the final entry, "Death and Transfiguration" (1983), he deals with his mother's death and then faces his own impending doom.
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