Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
The story
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.
- small town
- great britain
- northern england
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- single parent
- england
- falcon
- dysfunctional family
- coming of age
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Brian Glover — Mr. Sugden
- Bob Bowes — Mr. Gryce
- Bernard Atha — Youth Employment Officer
- Laurence Bould
- Joey Kaye — Pub Comic
- Ted Carroll
- Robert Naylor — MacDowell
- Agnes Drumgoon
- George Speed — Billy's Friend
- Desmond Guthrie
- Zoe Sunderland — Librarian
- Directed
- Ken Loach
- Written
- Ken Loach, Tony Garnett
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 446 ratings
- Studio
- Woodfall Film Productions, Kestrel Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
