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Kes (1970)

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overview : 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—until tragedy strikes.

Release Date : Apr 03, 1970

Runtime : 1h 51m

Genre : Drama  

Companies : Woodfall Film Productions, Kestrel Films Ltd., United Artists

Countries : United Kingdom

Keywords : small town, great britain, northern england, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, single parent, england, falcon, dysfunctional family, coming of age, yorkshire, sibling rivalry, working class, single mother, teenage boy, mining town, childhood, united kingdom, neglected child, kitchen sink realism, newspaper boy, bleak, brother brother relationship, bird, kestrel, falconry


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