Ladybird, Ladybird

1996 • 102 minutes

About this movie

This Ken Loach docu-drama relates the story of a British woman's fight with Social Services over the care of her children. Maggie has four children, of four different fathers, who came to the attention of Social Services when they were injured in a fire. She finally meets the man of her dreams, a Paraguayan expatriate, and they start a family together. Unfortunately, Social Services seems unwilling to accept that her life has changed and rends them from their new children. She and Jorge together, and separately, fight Social Services, Immigration, and other government bureaucrats in a desperate battle to make their family whole again.

Ratings and reviews

Incredible heartbreaking film