Speak Like a Child

1998, drama

77 minutes

Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children's home on the Northumbrian coast. The desolate beauty of...

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Cast

Fraser Ayres

Sammy (Age 14)

Alison Mac

Ruby (Age 14)

Carla Henry

Dorothy

Gavin Green

Bernie

Tim Bird

David

Adam Moran

Freddy Banes

Adam Pearson

Bobby Banes

Serena Gordon

Serena Gordon

Matron

Janine Birkett

Janine Birkett

Sammy's Mother

Helen Lederer

Helen Lederer

Ms Feggetter

Shelley O'Brien

Mad Mary

William Ulstein

1st Schoolboy (as William Ullstein)

Simon Humphrey

2nd Schoolboy

Shirley Henderson

Shirley Henderson

Woman in Dream (uncredited)

Daniel Newman

Billy (Age 14)

Crew

Directing

John Akomfrah

John Akomfrah

Director

Writing

Danny Padmore

Writer

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