Luke
Steven Brandon
Luke
Overview
Luke, an independent young man with Down's syndrome stumbles upon a wild and life changing friendship.
Trailer
MY FERAL HEART Official Trailer 2016 UK Drama
Cast
Eve
Shana Swash
Eve
Pete
Will Rastal
Pete
The Girl
Pixie Le Knot
The Girl
Joan
Eileen Pollock
Joan
Margaret
Suzanna Hamilton
Margaret
William
Keith Chanter
William
Sam
Darren Kent
Sam
Yvonne
Jill Keen
Yvonne
Social Worker
Kerryann White
Social Worker
Woman in Butcher's Shop
Sarah Ioannou
Woman in Butcher's Shop
Butcher
Keith Austin
Butcher
Reviews
CinemaSerf
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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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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