Best reviews of 🎁 Ken Loach Collection (3-disc DVD) DVD – Ricky Tomlinson, Vladimir Vega  🔥

Triple bill of dramas directed by Ken Loach. In ‘Riff Raff’ (1991) former jailbird Stevie (Robert Carlyle) travels to London, finds work on a building site, and sets up home in an abandoned flat. One day he discovers a handbag in a skip and returns it to its owner, aspiring singer Susan (Emer McCourt). The pair begin a romance, but Susan’s drug use soon puts a strain on their relationship and an accident at work, caused by the building company’s unscrupulous cost-cutting, brings tensions to a head. In ‘Raining Stones’ (1993) unemployed and penniless Bob (Bruce Jones) is desperate to earn enough money to pay for his daughter Coleen (Gemma Phoenix)’s communion dress. Unable to raise the cash any other way, he ends up borrowing from a vicious loan shark who then proceeds to terrorise Bob’s wife and threaten further violence. As the communion approaches, the family seem locked into an impossible situation. In ‘Ladybird Ladybird’ (1994) Maggie Conlon (Crissy Rock) is a downtrodden woman who has had her children taken away by the social services for being an unfit mother. When Maggie then meets a kind and gentle Chilean refugee, they become lovers and move in together. The couple start a family, but Maggie’s past history with the social services causes problems as it means that their newborn baby is in danger of being taken away.

KEN LOACH COLLECTION (3-DVD set) This new collection brings together three of Ken Loach’s finest films from the 1990s, titles linked by the director’s career long drive to tackle social injustice and contemporary political issues. In Riff Raff Glaswegian jailbird Stevie (Robert Carlyle) heads to London to find work but discovers a world of corruption and degradation. Inner-city poverty is brought to the fore in Raining Stones, as unemployed Bob’s (Bruce Jones) desperate attempts to afford a communion dress for his daughter results in a succession of disasters. Inspired by real events, Ladybird Ladybird is an emotional and harrowing story of a woman’s fight to keep her children and relationship intact in the face of bureaucratic interference. Special Features Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film and full credits Other extras TBC UK | 1991 – 1994 | colour | 90 + 90 + 102 mins | English language, with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | cert 18