Kes, Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Woodfall Films presents a Kestrel Films production ; adapted by Barry Hines, Kenneth Loach, Tony Garnett ; produced by Tony Garnett ; directed by Kenneth Loach
Type
Label
Kes, Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Woodfall Films presents a Kestrel Films production ; adapted by Barry Hines, Kenneth Loach, Tony Garnett ; produced by Tony Garnett ; directed by Kenneth Loach
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: Rated PG-13 for language, nudity and some teen smoking
Main title
Kes
Oclc number
710849095
Responsibility statement
Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Woodfall Films presents a Kestrel Films production ; adapted by Barry Hines, Kenneth Loach, Tony Garnett ; produced by Tony Garnett ; directed by Kenneth Loach
Runtime
111
Series statement
Criterion collection, 561
Summary
Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working class Yorkshire boy, is a scrappy loner who delivers papers before and after school, shares a bed with his bullying brother, Jud, and mostly ignores his self-absorbed mother. His routine is derailed when he spots a small falcon, a kestrel, in the countryside. He's raised birds in the past and is inspired to capture a young kestrel and try his hand at falconry. When not enduring the scorn of his peers and "betters," Billy wanders the countryside, pokes about the town, and secretively trains his kestrel, where his intelligence and imagination are as free as the bird. Because ever present in Billy's mind is fear and hatred of the pit--the local mine where he is destined to spend his adult life digging coal
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
- Loach, Ken, 1936-
- Welland, Colin
- Bowes, Bob
- Bragg, Melvyn, 1939-
- Bradley, David, 1953-
- Cameron, John, 1944-
- Thomas, David
- Glover, Brian, 1934-1997
- Garnett, Tony
- British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Sandford, Jeremy
- Kestrel Films (Firm)
- Perrie, Lynne, 1931-2006
- Hines, Barry, 1939-
- London Weekend Television (Firm)
- Woodfall Film Productions
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Hendrickson, Kim
- Fletcher, Freddie
Subject
- Barnsley (South Yorkshire, England) -- Drama
- Wildlife rehabilitation -- Drama
- Falconry -- Drama
- Teacher-student relationships -- Drama
- Working class -- England -- Barnsley (South Yorkshire) -- Drama
- Kestrels -- Drama
- English literature -- Film adaptations
- Coal mines and mining -- England -- Barnsley (South Yorkshire) -- Drama
- Teenage boys -- England -- Barnsley (South Yorkshire) -- Drama
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- Loach, Ken, 1936-
- Welland, Colin
- Bowes, Bob
- Bragg, Melvyn, 1939-
- Bradley, David, 1953-
- Cameron, John, 1944-
- Thomas, David
- Glover, Brian, 1934-1997
- Garnett, Tony
- British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Sandford, Jeremy
- Kestrel Films (Firm)
- Perrie, Lynne, 1931-2006
- Hines, Barry, 1939-
- London Weekend Television (Firm)
- Woodfall Film Productions
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Hendrickson, Kim
- Fletcher, Freddie
- Subject9
- Barnsley (South Yorkshire, England) -- Drama
- Wildlife rehabilitation -- Drama
- Falconry -- Drama
- Teacher-student relationships -- Drama
- Working class -- England -- Barnsley (South Yorkshire) -- Drama
- Kestrels -- Drama
- English literature -- Film adaptations
- Coal mines and mining -- England -- Barnsley (South Yorkshire) -- Drama
- Teenage boys -- England -- Barnsley (South Yorkshire) -- Drama
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