Kes
They beat him. They deprived him. They ridiculed him. They broke his heart. But they couldn’t break his spirit.
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence—until tragedy strikes.
- Year: 1970
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Woodfall Film Productions, Kestrel Films
- Keyword: small town, great britain, northern england, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, single parent, england, falcon, dysfunctional family, coming of age, yorkshire, sibling rivalry, working class, single mother, teenage boy, mining town, childhood, united kingdom, neglected child, kitchen sink realism, newspaper boy, bleak, brother brother relationship, bird, kestrel, falconry
- Director: Ken Loach
- Cast: David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover, Bob Bowes
