The fact that the first 10 minutes of this TV film made no sense whatsoever didn't help but after 20 minutes i was finding it so dull i just couldnt carry on. I skipped ahead to the end to get the gist and it alll seemed very predictable. Felt a bit superficial and not an engaging gritty realistic drama. As for the intro - the lad gets home from school one day and his parents have left with all thier belongings and not told him? What? Why? There is no explanation. And is it realistic? They took every item including every last tin of beans and slice of bread and piece of crockery, the cupboards were bare! As if! It would take immense planning and some massive operation to pull that off entirely behind your teenage child's back and in the short time they are in school. And who would take every last thing anyway? Then he finds something in the bin (i guess they did leave something afterall) that suggests they've gone to Canada? What? With all that stuff?
The bizarreness continues as he immediately starts to sleep rough in houses for sale and then the streets - did he have no friends or family he could call on for help?
The bizarreness continues as he immediately starts to sleep rough in houses for sale and then the streets - did he have no friends or family he could call on for help?