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Synopsis
Daniel Blake has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.
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Movie Details
| Netherlands Releases: | November 24th, 2016 (Wide) |
| Video Release: | January 16th, 2018 by Criterion |
| MPAA Rating: | R for language. (Rating bulletin 2454 (Cert #50814), 12/7/2016) |
| Running Time: | 100 minutes |
| Keywords: | Poverty, Unemployed, Government Bureaucracy, Medical and Hospitals, Single Parent |
| Source: | Original Screenplay |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Contemporary Fiction |
| Production/Financing Companies: | Sundance Selects, Sixteen Films, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, BFI, BBC Films, Les Films du Fleuve, France 2 Cinema, Canal Plus, France Television, Le Pacte, Cineart, Cine Plus, VOO ET BETV |
| Production Countries: | Belgium, France, United Kingdom |
| Languages: | English |