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The children act

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OFRB rating: 14A

The children act

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"...'The Children Act' is that rarest of things: an adult drama, written and interpreted with a sensitivity to mature human concerns..."--Variety"The two central performances could hardly be better. Thompson works here with remarkable subtlety."--Hollywood Reporter"It's worth seeing precisely for the heat of the arguments that you can enjoy after the screening and, above all, for Emma Thompson."--The New Yorker

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Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them both

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