Synopsis
In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
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Cast
- Emma ThompsonFiona Maye
- Stanley TucciJack Maye
- Fionn WhiteheadAdam Henry
- Jason WatkinsNigel Pauling
- Anthony CalfMark Berner
- Paul JessonHumphrey
- Ben ChaplinKevin Henry
- Eileen WalshNaomi Henry
- Reena LalbihariSamaira
- Dominic CarterRoger
Recommandations
- 80
Screen Daily
The Children Act is a cerebral piece, for sure, and a disturbing one by the end, but Thompson’s performance brings life to the complex moral questions it attempts to examine. - 80
Variety
The Children Act is that rarest of things: an adult drama, written and interpreted with a sensitivity to mature human concerns. - 80
CineVue
The Children Act brilliantly recreates the measured mind and language of a judge. But McEwan and Eyre are also interested in conveying the tumultuous emotional currents that operate below the surface in a person – often unrecognised until it is too late. - 75
IndieWire
No matter how iffy the story gets, or how clinical Eyre’s direction becomes, Thompson makes it absolutely heartrending to watch Fiona’s veneer crack one line at a time. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
Even the cast’s uniform excellence can’t quite crack Children’s outer carapace, or bring full life to Fiona’s emotional struggle as she’s forced to confront her own failings. Instead the story drifts iceberg-like toward its carefully muted conclusion, only a small part of its true scope visible above a beautiful, chilly surface. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The two central performances could hardly be better. - 60
The Guardian
The Children Act is concerned with love, intimacy and moral responsibility and it is refreshing to see a movie which sets itself standards of this sort. But there is also something a little too neat in the way all these things are wrapped up. Emma Thompson’s performance, so elegant and vulnerable, carries the picture. - 60
The Observer (UK)
There is no questioning the angular complexity of the central character study, with all its unexpected harmonics and discords.
