The Children Act

Absorbed by her role to the point she neglects her private life, a family court judge becomes directly involved with a young Jehovah's witness who rejects a life-saving blood transfusion. A typically multilayered Ian McEwan adaptation - penned by the novelist himself - that juggles such universal themes as the conflict between law and individual choice with the most intimate complexities of its intellectually and morally admirable protagonists. Smoldering under the ashes of rigorous restraint, the drama grows from intriguing to suspenseful and moving, driven by Eyre's firm direction and a read more