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TrailerIn an exciting atmosphere, this movie centers around the life story of Fiona Maye, a judge in the family law, who struggles against saving her marriage and doing his work, as she does her best, in order to help Adam, a 17 year old boy with Leukemia, and needs a blood transfusion, but according to their religious beliefs, it's forbidden to do such a thing, the thing that challenges Fiona and leads her to make an act includes the exception of the religious beliefs in the case of treatment.Genre: DramaActors: Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Ben Chaplin, Fionn Whitehead, Rosie Cavaliero, Honey Holmes, Jason Watkins, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rupert Vansittart, Anthony Calf, Toni Beard, ...»Director: Richard EyreCountry: United Kingdom, United StatesDuration: 105 minQuality: HDRelease: 2017IMDb: 6.7Rating(4) Voted0 CommentsSort By- Newest
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Fiona MayePlayed by: Emma Thompson
Jack MayePlayed by: Stanley Tucci
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Critic Reviews of "The Children Act"
New YorkerSeptember 10, 2018It's worth seeing precisely for the heat of the arguments that you can enjoy after the screening and, above all, for Emma Thompson.
Entertainment WeeklyAugust 28, 2018The pale, sharp-featured Whitehead brings an appropriately feverish intensity to Adam, who looks less like a typical 21st-century teenager than Lord Byron with a backpack.
indieWireSeptember 22, 2017Like so many of the movies that stem from McEwan's novels, "The Children Act" is a soulful and sophisticated adult drama that peers into the void between the beauty of ideals and the cost of living by them.
TheWrapSeptember 13, 2017If Emma Thompson can't make this drama about a family-court judge conflicted over her own decisions and the precarious state of her own family into something interesting and meaningful, then no one can. And she can't.
Hollywood ReporterSeptember 11, 2017The two central performances could hardly be better. Thompson works here with remarkable subtlety.
VarietySeptember 11, 2017... "The Children Act" is that rarest of things: an adult drama, written and interpreted with a sensitivity to mature human concerns...
Flickering MythSeptember 09, 2018The melodrama is piled on during the final act to an unbearable degree with material not even Emma Thompson can save.
Film InquirySeptember 07, 2018he Children Act works strongest as a tight character study of the central female figure, elevated to higher ground by the astonishing lead performance.
Irish TimesAugust 28, 2018The film thinks itself very grown-up and, like many films that think themselves that, plays out its confrontations in the style of a middlebrow play.
The Mail on Sunday (UK)August 27, 2018What makes it not just a feature film but a feature film worth catching (if you're in a cerebral frame of mind) is the quality of Thompson's performance.
Hot PressAugust 27, 2018The Children Act can feel sluggish and melodramatic, weighed down with the use of superfluous flashbacks, letter-reading voice-overs, and the repeated use of stodgy Bach passages. Intelligent, but airless.
London Evening StandardAugust 26, 2018File this under missed opportunity. More often than not, it feels like a pretentious episode of Holby City. Or a shallow take on John Huston's The Dead.
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