Children

Children

44 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1976

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. He's 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 father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.

Children

44 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1976

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. He's 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 father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers British Film Institute
Original title Children
Directors Dave Wheeler, Terence Davies
Writers Terence Davies

Cast

Phillip Mawdsley

as Robert Tucker

Robin Hooper

as Robert Tucker (aged 23)

Nick Stringer

as Father

Valerie Lilley

as Mother

Linda Beckett

as Neighbour

Colin Hignet

as Bully

Robin Bowen

as Bully 2

Trevor Eve

as Man in Shower

Harry Wright

as Teacher

Phillip Joseph

as 2nd Teacher

Kate Fahy

as Neighbour

Marjorie Rowlandson

as Neighbour

Bill Maxwell

as Doctor

Malcolm Hughes

as Man in Bedroom