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Kes
Kes
1080p
111 min
1970
7.5
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.
Genre
Country
Release date
April 03, 1970
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
