Children (1976)

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57
Children
Robert Tucker a young gay man who is almost without affect sits in various waiting rooms As he sits he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies Hes ten or eleven that year picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends He seems friendless At home his mother is quiet his father is ill and angry After his fathers death theres a wake the coffin arrives the body is removed The lad grieves alone
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Movie Details

Theatrical Release:January 1st, 1976
Movie Budget:$500,000
Original Language:English
Production Companies:BFI
Movie Tags:bully, school

The Terence Davies Trilogy

A trilogy of short films tell the life of Robert Tucker. "Children" (1976) looks at his birth and formative at an austere boy's school. The bleak environment is not aided by the loveless, violent domestic life he experiences. Nonetheless, his father's death has a major impact on him. In "Madonna and Child" (1980), he is a closeted homosexual working in a grim office and still living at home with his daunting mother. In the final entry, "Death and Transfiguration" (1983), he deals with his mother's death and then faces his own impending doom.