Ladybird Ladybird Page #5

Synopsis: This Ken Loach docu-drama relates the story of a British woman's fight with Social Services over the care of her children. Maggie has a history of bouncing from one abusive relationship to another. She has four children, of four different fathers, who came to the attention of Social Services when they were injured in a fire. Subsequently, Maggie was found to be an "unfit mother" and her children were removed from her care. She finally meets the man of her dreams, a Paraguayan expatriate, and they start a family together. Unfortunately, Social Services seems unwilling to accept that her life has changed and rends them from their new children. She and Jorge together, and separately, fight Social Services, Immigration, and other government bureaucrats in a desperate battle to make their family whole again.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Ken Loach
Production: Hallmark Entertainment
  6 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
R
Year:
1994
101 min
627 Views


You do believe I love you?

Love isn't for me.

Love's for f***in' fairy tales.

Well, I do.

You believe it or not, I do.

And I'll still be here.

But I'm not worth it anyway.

I'm just not worth it.

Here's the baby - head, body...

little heart beating away. Can you see that?

Yeah.

It's got its spine at the top,

just there.

Little legs down here.

That's the bottom end.

It's about 14 weeks.

Look, she's gonna be a girl.

- She's gonna be a girl.

- How do you know, Dr Spock?

You can't tell whether it's a girl yet.

Can you, nurse? Tell him.

It's doing my head in.

That's actually the head

we're looking at there.

See? That's its head,

it's not its bum. It's its head.

Just going to measure the head now.

Is this your first baby?

- It's our first.

- It is?

Just measuring the baby's head now.

It's just here.

Stop complaining anyhow.

What's the point in that?

Hey, hey, can't you stop that?

Come on, stop it. Leave him alone.

- Come on.

- What do you want?

- Give him to me. What are you doing?

- It's the old bag's dog.

- He wants his food.

- You want me to put you in there?

- Shut up!

- Mind your own business.

- Why don't you get lost?

- Why don't you go back home?

- OK, boy?

- What you doing with my dog?

- Give me my dog.

- They were...

What do you think you're doing

with my dog? Don't know who you are.

- They were trying to...

- Go and play with the traffic.

- Listen...

- I don't know who you are. Go away.

You leave my dog alone,

don't ever touch him again.

What a nice way

of meeting the neighbours.

Oh, get in.

Eh, it's not bad, is it?

Is that the kitchen?

It's like a palace

compared to what we've had.

Oh. I thought it was too good.

Look, damp.

- Had to be something, didn't there?

- We can do something about that.

But will it come back?

Big enough for a family?

Well, it's possible.

- What's out there?

- Let's see.

Look at this.

Look at the size of it.

It's massive.

We can have a lot of plants here.

Hi, Peter. This is my friend

I told you about.

- Oh, and you are...?

- I'm Jorge.

Pleased to meet you.

When can you start?

- Er, straight away.

- Right.

- Any experience?

- Some, yeah.

All right, start today.

I'll stick you on the payroll tomorrow.

- You got any papers?

- No... I don't.

Tell you what, I'll do a deal with you -

I won't ask no more questions,

and you get two quid an hour.

- Two quid an hour?

- Take it or leave it.

Look at this one.

You like it?

Maggie?

Bastards.

I think it's quite nice.

Just feel.

It's the right size. And I feel like

dancing with my baby already.

You like it?

Let's see, here's the baby.

That's the baby.

Give it a f***in' rest, George.

What's wrong?

Something you read in the paper?

Oh, sh*t.

Oh, sh*t.

I can't believe this.

I've really had enough this time.

George, take these clothes

and get them the f*** out of my sight!

I'm sick of it! I'm f***ing sick of it!

They won't leave me alone

for five minutes!

They won't be happy

until I'm f***ing dead!

You must live in cuckoo f***ing land!

Everything's brilliant, isn't it, George?

What makes you mad?

What makes you tick up there?

Anger is going to kill you, too.

How can it kill me, George?

How can it kill me?

Cos I can't cope anymore!

Look at them, George, smiling down at me!

And what can I do? Nothing!

Maggie, please...

Please...

You want me to build my hopes up again,

that this is gonna be different! It's not!

Maggie...

I'm not angry anymore, George,

I'm not angry!

I'm frightened! I want these back!

I want this baby! I want you!

- Come...

- Get off!

- I'm just fright...

- Please, Maggie, please...

- I'm not taking any f***ing more of this.

- You're not alone, you know that.

You know I'm staying here for you.

I know...

Oi!

- Oi!

- Oi, you b*tch!

Oi, b*tch!

What the hell's going on?

- Hey! I've had enough of you!

- Shut up!

- George?

- Yeah?

George, I'm going down with the washing.

I won't be long, all right?

Maggie, don't worry about it,

I'll go later, OK?

I'm going round the bend in there.

I might as well go. I've only got a bit.

Is that her going on again?

She's always going on with the kids,

isn't she?

Don't worry about this, OK?

Just leave her alone, don't get involved.

- Terrible

- Especially her up there.

What you lookin' at, you old cow? You.

- Who you talkin' to?

- You!

I can stand on my own balcony, if I want.

I f***ing can! You gonna stop me?

Every night we have to listen

to your business -

the fighting, specially

with a foreign git like him.

- Hey!

- How can you let him lay his hands on you?

He speaks better f***ing English

than you!

You can't even speak English

without F-ing all the time!

I only know two words - piss off!

- Don't get involved.

- What are you on about? Listen to him!

I'm talking to the organ grinder,

not the f***ing monkey!

At least I pay my rent.

Social Security don't pay my rent!

Go back to Liverpool!

And take that git with you!

- Don't let her talk to you like that.

- Come on, listen, she's angry.

She's happy making you angry,

and you're playing her game.

Scampy's indoors, all right?

And he's all right, thanks.

- Did he get through the window all right?

- You little bastard!

Was it you who put him through the window?

You bastards.

We have our... our life here, just let...

- No, I'm not saying nothing, just...

- Don't get involved, OK?

All we ever got is trouble from you.

Nothing but trouble.

Why don't you just piss off

and get out of it, eh? For God's sake.

Oh!

That's terrible, that.

Please, could you move...?

Excuse me for a minute.

Go on, you squirt her.

Yes!

Oi! What's goin' on?

Get that bloody gorilla off of here!

Get that bloody gorilla back in his cage!

How do you like it, eh?

OK, you go in now

or you get the same treatment, OK?

Oh, behave! No! I'm gonna go in!

Come on, Maggie.

You will set the bed on fire.

I thought you was asleep.

It's not good for the baby or for you.

And you'll set the bed on fire. Put it out.

What's happening?

Maggie?

- Do you want to go to the hospital?

- Oh, George, not yet.

F***in' hell.

It's OK.

Take the sheet away.

Just gonna

clean you down below a minute.

OK, when you get the next pain,

if you want to push,

take a nice deep breath in

and push right down into your bottom.

- That's it.

- Keep going, keep going, good.

OK, let it out.

OK, just let this pain go.

Just breathe this pain through.

You bastard, George.

- Come on.

- You're doing really well.

- The baby's nearly out.

- It will be OK.

- I'm going to push now.

- OK, big push.

Nice big push, right down to your bottom.

Super. Go on, keep it going.

Keep pushing.

Keep pushing.

Keep pushing, keep pushing. OK.

- Let go of my arm.

- That's it, that's it.

OK, just stop pushing,

stop pushing.

Stop pushing.

OK. Baby's head is out, all right?

Just waiting for baby

to come down a bit more, all right?

- What's the matter?

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Rona Munro

Rona Munro (born 7 September 1959) is a Scottish writer. She has written plays for theatre, radio, and television. Her film work includes Ken Loach's Ladybird, Ladybird (1994), Oranges and Sunshine (2010) for Jim Loach and Aimée & Jaguar (1999), co-authored by German director Max Färberböck. more…

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