Film
I, Daniel Blake
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Winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the latest from legendary director Ken Loach is a gripping, human tale about the impact one man can make. Gruff but goodhearted, Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) is a man out of time: a widowed woodworker who’s never owned a computer, he lives according to his own common sense moral code. But after a heart attack leaves him unable to work and the state welfare system fails him, the stubbornly self-reliant Daniel must stand up and fight for his dignity, leading a one-man crusade for compassion that will transform the lives of a struggling single mother (Hayley Squires) and her two children. Variety calls it “a work of scalding and moving relevance.”
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Genre
Runtime
100 min
Section
Hidden Gems of 2017
Release Year
2016
Director
Ken Loach
Cast
Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Briana Shann, Dylan McKiernan
Country
UK