Ken Loach's 'Ladybird Ladybird' is one of the most powerful and moving depictions I've seen of the trials and indignities of poverty. While 'Raining Stones' covers the same geographic and class territory, it softens the edges a bit. The very appealing sympathetic family man is delivered from his immediate plight in a somewhat unbelievable way, undercutting the realism that Loach so excels at.
Review of Raining Stones
