User Reviews

Simply incredible. Performances across the board are absolutely brilliant. So real to life, and just an exceptional piece of Scottish cinema. What a debut from Compston. One of my favourite films of all time.

This is a fairly typical Ken Loach social drama film, with the main character shown trying to improve his circumstances in time for his mums release from prison. Its somewhat predictable in terms of plot development but the characters are well performed and its quite gritty - it seemed pretty realistic I suppose, from what little I know. If your a fan of the directors work then I'd say this is worth a watch, yes.