- BFI identifier411972
- Date1994 (Copyright)
1994-09-30 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisDrama based on a true story. Maggie, a working class Liverpudlian mother of four children living in London, meets Jorge, a political exile from Paraguay. They begin an affair and she tells him about the domestic violence she suffered as a child and the series of abusive relationships she endured as an adult that resulted in her four children being placed in the care of social services. She starts a new life with Jorge and becomes pregnant by him but when the baby is born social services once again intervene in her life. (Synopsis)
- Work historyShown in the 1994 Berlin Film Festival and 1994 Edinburgh Film Festival.
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
- Subject
- CreditsDirector: Ken Loach
©: Channel Four Television Corporation
A Parallax Pictures production: Parallax Pictures
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Ladybird Ladybird - Contains papers relating to the making of 'Ladybird, Ladybird', including scripts, papers and correspondence regarding the delivery of the film, contractual and financial papers, distribution, exhibition and press activity, and stills. [Based on a true story of a mother who has her four children placed into the care of social services after being a victim of domestic violence. Her living situation changes when she, Maggie, meets Jorge, a refugee from Paraguay, who she tells her story to. They start a new life and have a baby together, which immediately brings the intervention of social services. Based on a true story.] - KCL-24
NFT audiotape interview with Sally Hibbin and Rona Munro, following screening held; apply at library counter.
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United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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