Review of The Runaways

The Runaways (II) (2019)
Pleasantly entertaining story of a broken up English family.
28 May 2021
We came across this British movie on Amazon streaming, I find its IMDb rating just about right.

It is about a very marginal coastal fishing family with a dad that boozes it a bit too much. But he has a good heart and on certain days they operate a beach donkey ride with their three donkeys. Mom just left right after the youngest was born, now about 8. There is a brother and the real glue of the family is the oldest, the girl just turning 16.

When dad just happens to die overnight in his bed, right after his mess of a younger brother gets out of prison for murder, the kids decide to run for it, along with two of the donkeys. They take a road trip, really mostly an off-road trip, to find mom as the lesser of the evils.

Naturally things don't turn out the way the kids imagined it but they get onto a better trajectory, at least as good as can be expected.
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