Sweet Sixteen (2002)

Directed by

Ken Loach

Genre

drama film, crime film, coming-of-age film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom, Spain

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

R

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 256 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Liam is a teenage boy from a troubled home whose mother is in prison. He tries to raise money fast so they can start a new life together after her release.

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What happens

Sweet Sixteen is a 2002 coming-of-age crime drama film directed by Ken Loach. Set in Scotland, the film tells the story of Liam, a teenage boy from a troubled background who dreams of starting afresh with his mother as soon as she has completed her prison term. Liam's attempts to raise money for the two of them are set against the backdrop of the Inverclyde towns of Greenock, Port Glasgow and the coast at Gourock. The film is an international co-production of the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain. It is often shown with subtitles because, as with many of Loach's films, the dialogue is extensively in a local dialect, in this case the Inverclyde variant of Scottish English and Scots, a similar dialect and accent to Glaswegian. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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