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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 harde... read more read more...ned Maggie (Crissy Rock) has already suffered through a series of painful romances when she falls for the caring Jorge (Vladimir Vega), and they begin a loving but turbulent relationship. Their situation takes a turn for the worse when Maggie becomes pregnant, for her troubled past has left her branded an unfit mother by the government, with four previous children already in foster care. Determined to keep their child, Maggie and Jorge begin a difficult fight against the government bureaucracy, made all the more difficult by Maggie's volatile temperament. ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 42 min.

Directed by: Ken Loach

Release Date: June 16, 1994

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DVD Release Date: September 12, 1995

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  • mvieaddict
    April 2, 2010
    mvieaddict
    Ladybird, Ladybird was a story about a British woman who struggled to keep her children. Ken Loach's movies were always good and they dealt with sad and hard subjects. She has had an unhappy childhood, has been beaten and mistreated by all the men in her life and social services ... read morehad taken away her children from her, because they were convinced that she wasn't able to take care of them. The movie felt more like a documentary, filmed by a camera crew that just happened to be in the right place at the right time to film this touching and realistic drama.You really don't need any spectacular scenes to make a great movie. A powerful, humbling and touching story like this one was more than enough.

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Emanuel Levy
November 14, 2006
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

Crissy Rock renders the best, toughest performance by an actress this year in Loach's relentlessly grim, alomost too painful to watch drama about a woman who loses six of her children to the state's s... Full Review

Dennis Schwartz
January 18, 2004
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A bleak drama. Full Review

Derek Elley
July 22, 2008
Derek Elley, Variety

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Janet Maslin
May 20, 2003
Janet Maslin, New York Times

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Roger Ebert
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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James Berardinelli
January 1, 2000
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

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Michael Szymanski
October 14, 2005
Michael Szymanski, Zap2it.com

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Scott Renshaw
January 1, 2000
Scott Renshaw, rec.arts.movies.reviews

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Geoff Andrew
June 24, 2006
Geoff Andrew, Time Out

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January 9, 2002
Movieline

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