Cathy Come Home (1966)

Directed by

Ken Loach

Genre

drama television series, docudrama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young family gradually falls into homelessness after a series of misfortunes. The story follows Cathy and her husband as they struggle to keep their children and stay together while facing an indifferent system.

grittyrealisticbleakemotionalsocially consciousrawgroundedharrowingintimate

What happens

"Cathy Come Home" is a 1966 BBC television play about homelessness. It was written by Jeremy Sandford, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach. A 1998 Radio Times readers' poll voted it the "best single television drama" and a 2000 industry poll rated it as the second-best British television programme ever made. Filmed in a gritty, realistic drama documentary style, it was first broadcast on 16 November 1966 on BBC1. The play was shown in the BBC's The Wednesday Play anthology strand, which often tackled social issues. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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