Everybody's Child (2014) User Reviews

A punch to the Socila Conscious

[jackandbn · 10/10 · 1 January 2021]

If your kids like mine are spoiled, sit them down and show them this. What a story of a boys struggle to survive in life in Edinburgh. Maybe I'm biased as I live in the capital but it shows it warts and all, where he grew up I can only read about, not like the side of the city I was raised in.

It's a honest movie about someone trying to escape reality by living upto his past and it shows how the addition of a good woman and kids of your own can change everything in your world.

Scary fact is he is not alone and lots of kid still live like this in the capital, hoping for more than life has dealt them

a hard watch

[watcher2019 · 10/10 · 5 May 2022]

One film that could have been the story for thousands of lost ones. Hard hitting and true. No real ending it will be interesting to look Garry up and see how things have gone for him.

Disappointing

[lesleysaphin · 4/10 · 26 November 2021]

Nicely made and tackles a difficult reality of life behind the tourist side of Edinburgh.

I really want to like this film but it was spoiled for me by the fact that while he wants to face his past, he is unable to accept the truths told to him and still wants to believe that it's "not his fault". I truly hope that he has continued to look at why his life went wrong and faced his own part in his failure to thrive.