Keyword: social services

The Dumping Ground

6.9

2013

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In a childrens home known as the \dumping ground\, the children have many fab, fun-filled adventures together as they grow up in foster care.

Damned

7.3

2016

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Comedy set in a local authoritys social-services department. Social workers Rose and Al swim against the tide of bureaucracy, deal with the absurdities of life, and try to navigate their equally trying professional and personal lives.

The Florida Project

6.4

2017

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Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.

I Am Sam

8.3

2001

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A mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.

Crash

4.8

2004

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Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.

I Care a Lot

6.2

2020

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A crooked legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wards meets her match when a woman she tries to swindle turns out to be more than she first appears.

I, Daniel Blake

7.9

2016

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After surviving a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight bureaucratic forces to receive Employment and Support Allowance.

Ladybird Ladybird

7.5

1994

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This Ken Loach docu-drama relates the story of a British womans fight with Social Services over the care of her children. Maggie has a history of bouncing from one abusive relationship to another. She has four children by four different fathers, who came to Social Services attention when they were injured in a fire; Maggie was found to be an unfit mother and her children were removed from her care. 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.

The Black Balloon

7.3

2008

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All Thomas wants is a normal adolescence but his autistic brother, Charlie, thwarts his every opportunity. Will Thomas, with the help of his girlfriend, Jackie, accept his brother?

The Monitor

5.7

2011

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After a baby monitor picks up another channel, Anna begins reliving the nightmare shed recently escaped.

Chasing Bonnie & Clyde

4.7

2015

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Dont build prisons, they cost too much! In this era of Great Recession, the conservative and tough-on-crime State of Texas takes an unprecedented path by becoming a social justice leader with programs that rehabilitate offenders. Looks like rape, abuse and death are no longer parts of the solution for modern-day Bonnie and Clyde...

American Winter

7.1

2013

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Documentary feature film that follows the personal stories of families struggling in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Filmed over the course of one winter in one American city, the film presents an intimate snapshot of the state of the nations economy as it is playing out in millions of American families, and highlights the human consequences of the decline of the middle class and the fracturing of the American Dream.