The Children Act, FilmNation Entertainment and BBC Films present a Duncan Kenworthy production ; directed by Richard Eyre ; produced by Duncan Kenworthy ; screenplay by Ian McEwan
Type
Label
The Children Act, FilmNation Entertainment and BBC Films present a Duncan Kenworthy production ; directed by Richard Eyre ; produced by Duncan Kenworthy ; screenplay by Ian McEwan
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: R; for a sexual reference
Main title
The Children Act
Oclc number
1055211197
Responsibility statement
FilmNation Entertainment and BBC Films present a Duncan Kenworthy production ; directed by Richard Eyre ; produced by Duncan Kenworthy ; screenplay by Ian McEwan
Runtime
106
Summary
Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them both
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Contributor
- Amuka-Bird, Nikki, 1976-
- Walsh, Eileen, 1977-
- Warbeck, Stephen
- Eyre, Richard, 1943-
- Tucci, Stanley
- Kenworthy, Duncan
- McEwan, Ian
- Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm)
- Farrell, Dan, (Film editor)
- FilmNation Entertainment (Firm)
- Dunn, Andrew
- BBC Films
- Calf, Anthony
- Vansittart, Rupert
- Whitehead, Fionn, 1997-
- Watkins, Jason, 1966-
- Jones, Nicholas, 1946-
- Cavaliero, Rosie
- Chaplin, Ben
- Thompson, Emma
Genre
Subject
- Blood + Transfusion -- Drama
- Films historiques
- Legal stories
- Adaptations cinématographiques
- Jehovah's Witnesses + Doctrines -- Drama
- Film adaptations
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- DVDs
- Feature films
- Sangre + Transfusión -- Teatro
- Fiction films
- Historical films
- Health + Religious aspects + Jehovah's witness -- Drama
- Women judges -- Drama
- Films de fiction
- Legal films
- Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
- Films judiciaires
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- Amuka-Bird, Nikki, 1976-
- Walsh, Eileen, 1977-
- Warbeck, Stephen
- Eyre, Richard, 1943-
- Tucci, Stanley
- Kenworthy, Duncan
- McEwan, Ian
- Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm)
- Farrell, Dan, (Film editor)
- FilmNation Entertainment (Firm)
- Dunn, Andrew
- BBC Films
- Calf, Anthony
- Vansittart, Rupert
- Whitehead, Fionn, 1997-
- Watkins, Jason, 1966-
- Jones, Nicholas, 1946-
- Cavaliero, Rosie
- Chaplin, Ben
- Thompson, Emma
- Genre13
- Subject18
- Blood + Transfusion -- Drama
- Films historiques
- Legal stories
- Adaptations cinématographiques
- Jehovah's Witnesses + Doctrines -- Drama
- Film adaptations
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- DVDs
- Feature films
- Sangre + Transfusión -- Teatro
- Fiction films
- Historical films
- Health + Religious aspects + Jehovah's witness -- Drama
- Women judges -- Drama
- Films de fiction
- Legal films
- Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
- Films judiciaires
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