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Pure (2005)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:16
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: This entry in the kitchen-sink realism genre is elevated by its strong performances.
Theatrical Release:Jun 10, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Set in the East-End of London, PURE is a story about innocence. Ten year old Paul (Harry Eden) becomes the caretaker of his family - mother Mel (Molly Parker) and youngest brother Lee (Vinni... Set in the East-End of London, PURE is a story about innocence. Ten year old Paul (Harry Eden) becomes the caretaker of his family - mother Mel (Molly Parker) and youngest brother Lee (Vinni Hunter) - following the death of his father. The movie follows his desperate attempts to protect the loving bond of mother and son and save Mel from her drug addiction. Ultimately, it is only when she hits rock bottom and is brought face to face with the damage she has wrought, that Mel finds the power to save herself and her family. -- © Indican Pictures [More]
Starring: Harry Eden, Keira Knightley, Molly Parker, David Wenham
Starring: Harry Eden, Keira Knightley, Molly Parker, David Wenham, Kate Ashfield, Nitin Ganatra, Gary Lewis, Geraldine McEwan, Marsha Thomason
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Producer: Howard Burch
Studio: Indican Pictures
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Reviews for Pure
Eden, who holds the film together by his winning presence and doughty performance, effectively conveys the effect of severe challenges that no child should ever have to face.
Although there is nothing really new here, an honest sense of humanity wins out.
It is so well-acted that it deserves admiration, but some of its pedestrian plot elements drag it down toward mediocrity.
There are latchkey kids, and then there's Paul, the 10-year-old hero (there's no other word for it) of Gillies MacKinnon's powerful drama Pure.
Parker and Harry Eden, the boy who plays her precocious-by-necessity son, elevate Pure from a tedious cautionary tale to a wrenching drama.
You kinda wish something, anything good would happen to the kid. Maybe someone could get him some ice cream.
PURE offers a fascinating contrast between acting talent (Molly Parker) and star quality (Kiera Knightley).
In an award-worthy performance, [Eden] possesses the screen with ease and steals the entire film.
Pure is made in the fine old miserabilist tradition of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, but MacKinnon has a rare way with children and a poetic eye for even the drabbest inner-city habitats.
Director Gillies MacKinnon (Hideous Kinky) forges a very wrenching and believable bond between Parker and Eden.
Though compellingly acted, Pure's spit and polished kitchen-sink realism exudes a disconcertingly cheery affection for the lives of its characters.
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