Ladybird, Ladybird

A single mother struggles against the British social service system and her own troubled past in director Ken Loach's brutally realistic drama. Coming from a background of abuse and poverty, the hardened Maggie (Crissy Rock) has already suffered through a series of painful romances when she falls ...more

British realist filmmaker Ken Loach takes a scalpel to the "based on a true story" school of filmmaking with this unrelenting tale of domestic strife and a government that unwittingly perpetrates it. Despite the casting of Crissy Rock, a former stand-up comic with no prior acting credits, Ladybird, Ladybird is almost devoid of the casual humor prominent in many of the director's other snapshots of British working-class life. Instead, Rock and Loach create a portrait of a warm but deeply flawed ...more