Henry Blake (2019)
Conrad Khan, Ashley Madekwe, Harris Dickinson Rated 15 Run time 90 minsConrad plays Tyler, a discontented 14 year old whose mum Toni is caught in a cycle of poverty. An older boy Simon gets Tyler to run errands for him involving moving drugs around the countryside.
Writer director Blake spent more than a decade as a youth worker, and his film presents an alarming yet compassionate portrait of a headline-grabbing scandal that combines the warm artistry of a coming-of-age picture with the cold, hard realty of child exploitation.
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