Movie · Drama · Independent

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.

2016 · 1h 40m
Director Ken Loach

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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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Average 8
Reviews 184
Fresh 169
Rotten 15

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Studio
Entertainment One
Released
2016
Run Time
1 hr 40 min
Rated
15
Regions of Origin
United Kingdom, France, Belgium, United States
© 2016 Sixteen Tyne Limited, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, Les Films du Fleuve, British Broadcasting Corporation, France 2 Cinéma and The British Film Institute

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Original Audio
English (United Kingdom), English
Audio

English (United Kingdom) (AAC)

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English (United Kingdom) (CC)

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Closed captions refer to subtitles in available languages with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.