It's a Free World...
2007 · Movie · NR · 96 min · ★ 6.5 · 81% critics
After losing her job, a working-class single mother starts a small recruitment agency from her kitchen with a friend. As the business grows fast, she begins relying on the desperation of migrant workers, blurring the line between getting by and exploiting others while family pressures mount.
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Details
- Years
- 2007
- Release date
- 2007-09-28
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Critic score
- 81/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (126 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a tense, realistic drama about work, survival, and exploitation in modern Britain, in the vein of Carla's Song or Sweet Sixteen; Not for you if you dislike bleak stories or messy, unresolved threads.
Pros: gripping social realism; strong lead performance; timely moral questions | Cons: uneven logic; too many side plots; abrupt ending
Themes
- worker
- class society
- great britain
- capitalism
- illegal immigration
- exploitation
- social realism
- labor rights
Cast & crew
Kierston Wareing
as Angie
- JE
Juliet Ellis
as Rose
Lesław Żurek
as Karol
- CC
Colin Caughlin
as Geoff
- JS
Joe Siffleet
as Jamie
Frank Gilhooley
as Derek
- DR
Davoud Rastgou
as Mahmoud
- DD
David Doyle
as Tony
Raymond Mearns
as Andy
- MR
Maggie Russell
as Cathy
Directed by Ken Loach