Following the death of his father 10 year old Paul takes on the role of caretaker to mother Mel and younger brother Lee. Paul's hunger for his mother's affection is as moving as her inability to respond as she seeks solace in drugs. With heroic optimism Paul takes drastic steps to rescue Mel from her addiction...
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Social realist drama set on a West London housing estate directed by Gillies MacKinnon ('Regeneration', 'Hideous Kinky'). Ten-year-old Paul (Harry Eden) is struggling to hold his family together in the wake of his father's sudden death. His mother, Mel (Molly Parker) is a heroin addict, and an opening scene shows Paul preparing the drug for her and handing her the syringe as she apologises for forgetting his birthday. Things get worse still when Mel turns to an old friend, Lenny (David Wenham) for consolation. Lenny is the main drug dealer in the area and has many other demands on his time, including his pregnant girlfriend Louise (Keira Knightley), a crack addict. Mel's behaviour grows increasingly unstable, and when the police start investigating the drugs scene in the local area, Paul realises it's time he took matters into his own hands for himself and his younger brother, Lee (Vinni Hunter).
From the director of HIDEOUS KINKY and TV's acclaimed THE LAST OF THE BLOND BOMBSHELLS comes this powerful drama that sees a mother battling and succumbing to heroin-addiction while trying to bring up her ten year old son. A film that is coldly realistic and rightly a harrowing experience that pulls no punches or glamorises drug addiction and it's devastating effects. WONDERLAND's Molly Parker is the mum.
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