Billy, Age 30
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Sep 5, 1998 · Speak Like a Child: Directed by John Akomfrah. With Cal MacAninch, Richard Mylan, Rachel Fielding, Daniel Newman. The story explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children's home on the Northumbrian coast.
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- Drama
- John Akomfrah
- 1998-09-05
Synopsis. By the side of a road somewhere in the North of England, Sammy stands and waits for the arrival of childhood friends Billy and Ruby. It is twenty years since they all first met, when Sammy was taken by social workers to join an isolated children's home on the dramatic Northumbrian coast.
Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children's home on the Northumbrian coast.
- John Akomfrah
- 3
SPEAK LIKE A CHILD Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Sound format: Dolby Stereo Three old friends - two men and a woman - return to an abandoned orphanage on the Northumbrian coastline where, as children, they fell in love with each other and committed an act of brutal violence.
A married couple reunite with a childhood friend (Richard Mylan) at the now abandoned reformatory where they all met.
- Drama
- Cal Macaninch
- John Akomfrah
Three teenagers forge a firm friendship while living in a children's home on the remote Northumbrian coast. Linked by a mutual sexual bond, they are involved in a terrible, life-changing incident that forever ties them together.
Speak Like a Child (1998), the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children's home on the Northumbrian coast.
