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They broke his heart but they couldn’t break his spirit.
Overview
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence—until tragedy strikes.
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Novel
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Screenplay
Status Released
Original Language English
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Revenue -
Keywords
- sibling relationship
- england
- single parent
- based on novel or book
- great britain
- small town
- falcon
- northern england
- yorkshire
- dysfunctional family
- coming of age
- sibling rivalry
- working class
- single mother
- teenage boy
- mining town
- childhood
- united kingdom
- neglected child
- kitchen sink realism
- newspaper boy
- bleak
- brother brother relationship
- bird
- kestrel
- falconry
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100
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