Sweet Sixteen

Sweet Sixteen

  • Director: Ken Loach
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
  • Language: English, Scots
  • Release date: October 4, 2002
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Солодкі шістнадцять
  • "Sweet Sixteen" is a juvenile crime film directed by Ken Loach and starring Martin Compston . It was released on May 21, 2002.
    The film tells the story of a teenager Liam working hard to make money, hoping to let his mother live a normal life after being released from prison, but his dream was finally ruthlessly shattered by reality   .

    Details

    • Release date October 4, 2002
    • Filming locations Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
    • Production companies Alta Films, BBC Films, Road Movies Filmproduktion

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $316,319

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $26,667

    Gross worldwide

    $3,633,509

    Movie reviews

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    • By Kylee 2022-03-20 08:01:24

      hopeless life

      The underlying characters in Ken Rocky movies always have Rocky complexity. You can always find the belief and energy of life, and even the brilliance and positive energy of human nature, in these low-level characters. But at the same time, the way these characters work hard, driven by beauty and expectations, is in a sense extremely despicable and dark. Simply put, they will do anything for a beautiful goal. In "Free World", in order to accommodate the illegal workers...

    • By Scot 2022-03-20 08:01:24

      A chilling plot, a distressing 16-year-old boy

      Liam would rather lose everything and walk on a road of no return, but also wants to keep her mother and buy her a good house, but she said that it is a place where birds don't shit, liam, a man who earned his mother a house before he was 16 years old. The child in the apartment finally chose to end his thoughts about his mother with a knife. I was surprised when I saw it at the end. The director mercilessly let a child under 16 go through so much. This is why I know Ken Rocky. The first...

    • By Andreanne 2022-03-20 08:01:24

      A mother is a desperate creature


        Li Mu is the kind of person who may not be silent, but definitely does great things.
        Boyhood has shown a sharp edge.
        How many years later, if he still survives, Jianghu smiles, the hero does not ask about his origin.
        He has a knack for driving others and himself to the limit.
        But he is gentle.
        
        He is the arrogance of Li Kangsheng's style, the arrogance of Ma Xiaojun's style, the agility and enthusiasm of his wife and husband Mu Cong, and the...

    • By Frances 2022-03-20 08:01:24

      sweet sixteen

      Adolescence is always a mixture of ego's fantasy of the world and the cruelty of adult social rules, and Rafferty understands this and organizes the story skillfully. The foreshadowing, management, and emotions of the story are all designed with great precision! Kenlodge has always been able to discover moving positive forces in the dark social groups and lives. Every struggle between the mind and reality has deeply moved me!
      It's the best Kenlodge movie I've ever seen. Or the previous...

    • By Trystan 2022-03-20 08:01:24

      Youth is over and never comes again

      Lima did not help his father bring drugs to his mother in prison, because he did not want his mother to be sentenced, so he was coaxed out of the house. All the good wishes of the fifteen-year-old are mother's love, so the thin shoulders have to carry the mother's future, a brand new and clean home. He worked hard to buy a house at all costs, waited for his mother to get out of prison, and even took the road of selling drugs by himself.
        
          However, the deepest hope in his heart was...

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    • By Tristin 2023-07-26 15:33:24

      Sure enough, the sweetest thing is only watching the stars in the first thirty seconds, and then there is only anxiety and fear. No one can escape fate. I want to see all the Kenlodge movies. Four and a half...

    • By Ernestina 2023-07-10 21:48:39

      The bottom-level teenagers had sweet dreams but were ruthlessly extinguished by reality. A period of joy and sadness, every time there is a slight improvement, it will be dragged into a deeper abyss, so when the last set of shots calmly swept towards the male protagonist and the sea, he was almost over (35mm screening in Baiziwan,...

    • By Gracie 2023-05-06 11:38:02

      On his sixteenth birthday, he lost...

    • By Dasia 2023-04-16 12:29:47

      So young, where to go... Scottish accent can't be more...

    • By Eriberto 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      On July 17, 2017, I tried to control my destiny, stubborn, brave, adventurous, paid, but failed. The screenwriter says: As young people, we have a greater determination to change reality (but when you grow up, you will realize that you can't control others in your own way). Press: Takeshi Kitano once said that he wanted to convey the feeling that he wanted to convey when he filmed "That Summer, Tranquil Sea": in the eyes of the deaf, the color of the sea is bluer. On July 18, 2021, on the way...

    Movie plot

    Scottish teenager Liam has a simple wish: on the day his mother is released from prison, which is the day before his sixteenth birthday, to buy a comfortable house, let his mother get rid of the dependence on drug dealer Stan, and live with him since then. on a happy life. He set his sights on a simple house by the lake, but the high price made him realize that without a lot of money, his dream could not be realized at all. By chance,...
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    The film subverts people's understanding of the form of family, and the black atmosphere that envelopes the whole film is suffocating. It is a betrayal of family discourse, destroying this ideal place for nurturing traditional ideas, and reinterpreting family situations with the reaffirmation and rescue of troubled and turbulent family relationships  . (Review of "Contemporary Film")
    The film adheres to Ken Lodge's usual simple and...
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