Regie:
Nick MoranDrehbuch:
Kevin LewisKamera:
Peter WignallMusik:
Ilan EshkeriBesetzung:
Rupert Friend, Natascha McElhone, Ioan Gruffudd, Bernard Hill, David O'Hara, James Fox, Kate Ashfield, Jodie Whittaker, Ralph Brown, Oliver Milburn (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Kevin Lewis never had a chance. Growing up on a poverty-stricken London council estate, beaten and starved by his parents, bullied at school and abandoned by social services, his life was never his own. Even after he was put into care, he found himself out on the streets caught up in a criminal underworld that knew him as 'The Kid'. Yet Kevin survived to make a better life for himself. (Verleiher-Text)
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A film of two completely different parts, although I don't mean that it is divided exactly in half. In the first roughly third, we watch a heavy social drama in the spirit of the best traditions of British film school, only for the film to increasingly clearly sail into the waters of Canadian production specializing in so-called stories based on real events in the following minutes. It is heavily average and the originally strong story becomes a banal anecdote about the miraculous success of an outsider. The ending is then framed with the most clichéd clichés, like when the hero bursts into the middle of a company meeting and confesses his love with a stuttering voice. Surely you have seen the same thing at least 20 times in various romantic comedies, but here it really hurts. Overall impression: 55%.
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