Ladybird Ladybird Page #9

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
631 Views


- Sarah Thompson.

You know there's things

we're concerned about, and...

a decision... we came to a decision

last week, where...

- we will have to...

- No.

...take the baby to a place of safety.

What safety?

The baby's safe and you have no right...

We can go with the baby to the court,

but you don't need to take her.

- It is...

- Just go to your office!

- Jorge, it is illegal...

- Just leave us alone! No! No!

Get... Get away from her!

Get away from her!

Get away!

- F*** off!

- Get away from my baby!

F***! Give me back my baby!

Give her back!

My baby! My baby!

Get off! Get off!

No!

Maggie!

- Maggie, please!

- George, please.

Maggie! Can we have some...?

Doctor!

- No!

- She tried to throw herself out the window.

Get off!

- No!

- Maggie...

Hold her arm, her arm.

Hold her arm down.

- It's all right now.

- No!

- Pull the sleeve right up.

- Please, Maggie...

- Calm down, Maggie.

- OK, hold her arm straight.

OK, Maggie.

You need to hold her arm more secure.

- OK.

- No! No!

- Maggie, it'll be all right.

- No!

Swab. Just rub that now.

Get off! Ah!

OK, Maggie, just calm down.

- All right, Maggie.

- Tell her to calm down.

- No!

- Bastards!

- She should be quite calm now...

- Maggie...

What a juggler you are!

George, stop tapping the cup.

Just leave me alone.

It's driving me crackers, stop it.

Just lay off, OK?

Stop tapping the f***ing cup!

Just don't hit me, OK?

Just don't hit me.

Who's wound you up? Eh?

Got to you, have they?

Wound up like a little rubber band,

are you?

Just don't hit me, that's all I'm asking you.

Just don't hit me.

What are you letting me hit you for?

Any other man

wouldn't let a woman hit him.

Mind you, any other man

wouldn't let a f***ing social worker

walk out the hospital with his kids.

What the hell did you want me to do?

I told you there were policemen over there!

I was thinking about you,

about not killing yourself!

Yeah. Thinking about me, my arse.

You could've done something, but no.

And what for?

They would take me out of the country.

They would deport me.

Then you would have been alone.

I'd rather be on my own

than stuck here with you!

You f***ing suck-holing bastard!

You've been down there, haven't you?

Smiling to them, apologising to them.

What for, after what they've done to us?

- You know what's the matter?

- F***ing kissing their arse.

You want them to think we're crazy -

both of us crazy.

So you shout, you swear.

You don't listen to anything.

And what do you listen to? Them!

Suck-holing round them.

Kissing their arse.

The only thing you haven't done

is give them a four-course meal. F*** off!

I can't believe

that you f***ing held me down

while they walked out with the baby.

I just can't believe it.

Do you know what?

No wonder your wife f***ing left you

because you're nothing but a f***ing

lily-livered, spineless bastard

who won't do nothing except

hold the mother of his f***ing child down

while they walk out the door with it!

What the hell do you want me to do, eh?

- I want you to f*** off.

- Take the kids to Paraguay? Run away?

You could've done anything

but hold me down!

They would think we're mad!

Who was it holding me down

and let his daughter get out the door?

You f***in' know I couldn't do that!

What the hell do you want me to do?

Or to be?

Just one of those men...

that hit you and beats you up?

The ones you want to bed,

to sleep with them so bad

that the social worker don't believe

you should keep your kids?

- Because of you!

- Because of me?

Because you have sex with animals!

Now they think I am an animal!

At least a f***ing animal stays with its litter!

Just calm down, OK?

Calm down? Calm down?

- We calm down, then we talk, OK?

- Talk? Talk?

You could've gone out the door

with the baby, but no!

You held onto me!

You weren't supposed to hold me!

They wasn't taking me,

they were taking her!

And I f***ing hate you for that!

I f***ing hate you!

You bastard! You should have

f***ing been there and done something!

- You hate me?

- Yes! I f***ing hate you!

- And you want me dead?

- Yes!

- F*** off!

- Well... go away! Just leave me!

- Go on, get out!

- Just f***ing leave me!

- Go on! F*** off!

- Just kill myself...

Out the window.

I just want to kill myself.

I just want to die.

Just want to die.

They took my babies,

they took my... my daughters.

They rob them from us.

Just want something...

I just want to die.

I just want to...

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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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