Kes
- Drama
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.
- Directed by
- Ken Loach
- Written by
- Tony Garnett, Ken Loach
- Based on
- Barry Hines
Cast
- David Bradley
- Freddie Fletcher
- Lynne Perrie
- Colin Welland
- Brian Glover
- Bob Bowes
- Bernard Atha
- Laurence Bould
- Joey Kaye
- Ted Carroll
- Robert Naylor
- Agnes Drumgoon
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- coming of age
- england
- dysfunctional family
- sibling relationship
- brother brother relationship
- working class
- bird
- small town
- teenage boy
- single parent
- single mother
- childhood
- great britain
- united kingdom
- neglected child
- falcon
- northern england
- yorkshire
- sibling rivalry
- mining town
- bleak
- falconry
- kitchen sink realism
- newspaper boy
- kestrel
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