My Feral Heart

2016

Drama

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 94% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 94% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 474 474

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Plot summary

Luke, an independent young man with Down's syndrome stumbles upon a wild and life changing friendship.

Director

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Jane Gull

Top cast

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Eileen Pollock as Joan
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Suzanna Hamilton as Margaret
Darren Kent Photo
Darren Kent as Sam
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Sara Dee as Telephone Operator
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1 hr 22 min
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1.38 GB
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English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 22 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by derek-eynon 8 / 10

8/10 and it COULD so easily have had a 10 - which I have never awarded

It just needed one tiny thing more.: an ending.In the cases of movies like No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood I would argue that IF YOU CAN'T THINK OF AN ENDING DONT BOTHER MAKING THE MOVIE. I would not, however argue this in the case of My Feral Heart, because the world is a better place for it. It is moving but never sentimental and highlights the good that there is in people, when they're not being bad.I don't know what to say about lead Steven Brandon, 'outstanding' seems inadequate for such a talent. Everyone is excellent in it, and if this movie gets half the attention it deserves all concerned should have long and stellar careers.
Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

My Feral Heart

Steven Brandon is great here as "Luke" a young man with Down's Syndrome who looks after his ailing mother at their home. When she dies, he is deemed incapable of fending for himself and goes to live in a residential care home. Initially unsettled, he starts to bond with one of the staff "Eve" (Shana Swash) and with "Pete" (Will Rastall) - a young man doing community service work nearby. "Luke" has a fondness for nature and likes to go for walks. On one such occassion, he encounters a seriously malnourished young girl trapped in a snare. He frees her and carries her to a nearby barn where he tries to nurse her back to health. It also transpires that his pal "Pete" has some demons and the story now proceeds to try to knit these themes together. It's Jane Gull's directional debut, and with Brandon she has a young actor who offers us an engaging perspective of his life and his search for joy and fulfilment. The story itself, though, is an implausible amalgam of scenarios (especially his foundling) and for the most part I felt like we were just plonked into the middle of something - with not enough sense of before, and certainly no sense of conclusion. That said, there is chemistry between the two men, here - Rastall (looks a bit like James Franco?) has a charm about him too - and Gull doesn't allow sentiment to intrude overly even if it does tug at the heart strings now and again. Whilst is touches on social care issues, and on some environmental ones too, this is essentially a snippet from the life of a young man trying to make his own way in a world that would treat him with kid gloves - whether he likes it or not.
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