Care

TV Movie
2000
1h 45m

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A troubled boy (Steven Mackintosh) endures physical abuse by the staffers at a children's home.A troubled boy (Steven Mackintosh) endures physical abuse by the staffers at a children's home.A troubled boy (Steven Mackintosh) endures physical abuse by the staffers at a children's home.

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7.6/10

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Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 12 wins & 3 nominations total

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10gemmamclenaghan

Can anyone tell me the Radiohead song at the end of this film please I've been trying to find it.

Hi this was the best thing I've watched I was only 10 when I watched this with my mum who's suddenly passed so I'm desperate to find the song at the end of the movie she loved it and I would like to listen and I would really love to watch it again but seems impossible ? Please help.

4Didier-Becu

CARE (DIDIER BECU)

Will there be please coming an end to hyping movies that are dealing about social conflicts or other human disasters? Okay "Care" is about childabuse, "Care" is about perverts misusing boys in a school and how disgusting it might be, if it's a movie with a poor script and made with bad playing actors then it stays a bad movie. "Care" is a movie that could have been, but is it because it was a tvmovie I don't know but everything seemed so limited that it comes over as some cheap movie that will be seen by some housewifes and fathers who decide not to go to bed. There are so many unanswered things in this movie...the relation with his mother for instance or the death of some abused boy from which we know nothing more. "Care" should have been much much better.

10glen030585

Really really cool made for tv drama!

I was quite shocked to see how damn good this was especially considering Made forTV movies are made for TV for a reason, they suck! Antonia Bird's quite fast moving, yet thoroughly intriguing direction kept me on the edge of my seat through some quite dramatic but not graphic molestation sequences. Child abuse seems to be quite a fashion in recent hollywood, and it's good to see the BBC catching on and ripping them off!

Great performances from Steve Mackintosh as Davey as a grown up, who was pretty sweet in Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels! Also a damn fine performance from Alun Evans, who played Gareth, the kid who falls down on his knees and cries like a girl!

10nsvsv99

A must-see!

This movie is very difficult to watch, but it ought to be seen by everyone. It's hard to believe such evil people exist, that would treat kids like this. But they do. And the rest of us, the society, we fail in helping the abused because we don't want to know what's going on. The acting is very good in general, but Macintosh is simply brilliant!

id247

Mackintosh and Bird deserve every plaudit.

I watched this film for the first time on Polish TV last night, and it blew me away.

I've been an admirer of Steven Mackintosh's performances for many years, but this is his tour-de-force.

Like many people director Antonia Bird caught my attention in 1994 when Bird was premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Together Bird and Mackintosh, well supported by an excellent cast, create a harrowing, shocking and nerve-shattering drama that only us Brits could make with such brutal honesty.

Well done all of you involved. 10/10

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Epilogue: "42 out of 52 police forces in Britain are currently investigating allegations of sexual abuse in children's homes. They are: Lincolnshire Operation Diamond, North Yorkshire Operation Pudsy, Sussex Operation Blast, Staffordshire Operation Thor, Gwent Operation Flight, Avon & Somerset Operation React, South Wales Operation Goldfinch, Suffolk, Devon & Cornwall Operation Lentisk, Hampshire Dorset, Kent, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Strathclyde, Essex, Grampian, Dunfries & Galloway, Metropolitan West Midlands, Hertfordshire, Northumbria, Avon & Somerset, Thames Valley, West Mercia, Fife, West Yorkshire, Bedfordshire, Cheshire, Leicester Humberside, South Wales, Lothian & Borders, Greater Manchester Operation Goldfinch, Wiltshire, Norfolk Gloucester, Mercyside Operation Care, North Wales, Derbyshire, Lancashire Operation Nevada, Nottinghamshire."