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Born Equal (2006)

Born Equal poster
Directed by
Dominic Savage
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 14 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Several people in London navigate poverty, homelessness, and immigration. Their lives sometimes cross as they deal with class and inequality in modern Britain.

socially awarecharacter-drivencontemplativegroundedemotionalcity-lifeinterwoventhought-provoking

What happens

Born Equal is a television film produced for the BBC. Written and directed by Dominic Savage, it stars Colin Firth, Robert Carlyle, David Oyelowo, Anne-Marie Duff and Emilia Fox, and explores aspects of poverty, race, inequality, homelessness, immigration and class in modern Britain by following the stories – at times intertwining – of several people living in London. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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