The Children Act
Driving by her deep will of saving the lives of children and her loyalty in work, Fiona Maye, a judge at a family law, who does her work well, the thing that affects badly on her marriage, does her best in order to save the life of Adam, a 17 year old boy, who in a big need to blood transfusion, according to Leukemia he has, but according to his parents religious beliefs, they refuse to do such a transfusion.
10 February 1958, Cranleigh, Surrey, England, UK
1979, UK
11 November 1960, Peekskill, New York, USA
4 May 1959, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
1946, UK
August 28, 2018
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
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.
September 11, 2017
... "The Children Act" is that rarest of things: an adult drama, written and interpreted with a sensitivity to mature human concerns...
August 27, 2018
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.
September 09, 2018
The melodrama is piled on during the final act to an unbearable degree with material not even Emma Thompson can save.
September 10, 2018
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 22, 2017
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 07, 2018
he Children Act works strongest as a tight character study of the central female figure, elevated to higher ground by the astonishing lead performance.
August 26, 2018
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.
September 11, 2017
The two central performances could hardly be better. Thompson works here with remarkable subtlety.
August 27, 2018
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.
September 13, 2017
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.
