The Unloved (Channel 4)

I found this to be quite an upsetting film to watch and certainly not one I would recommend to everybody and the subject material is quite disturbing at times however it also has the feel of an insightful piece of film making, it was not released at the cinema but was made for C4. The film is about Lucy a young girl in care played by Molly Windsor whose opening scenes sees her lying at the bottom of the stairs unconcsious and you also get introdued to her father played by Robert Carlyle who is a violent and abusive father with a lot of pent up anger which he is not slow to vent on his daughter and those others around him. The disturbing thing about ...  Read the complete review

---Intro--- Finding that there was nothing to watch on TV I had a look at the stuff recorded on our Sky Box and came across "The Unloved", a film I vaguely remembered asking hubby to record after seeing a trailer - my kind of thing, certainly not hubby's, so good to watch when he's away! Knowing nothing except that it was about a child in care I sat down expecting an emotional drama, and that's what I got. The film is directed by Samantha Morton (who has personal experience of being in care which inspired her) as her debut film, and is a made for TV film, shown as part of 'Britain's forgotten children' season on Channel four. This ...  Read the complete review