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Movie | Dustbin Baby

21 December 2008 · 1 h 28 min

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Drama Thriller

The film follows the story of young teen April whose troubled life began in a dustbin - a new born baby, abandoned and alone, not celebrated, not wanted but discarded and left like so much rubbish in an industrial bin behind a pizza parlour. On the morning of her fourteenth birthday April has a devastating row with her foster mother, Marion and leaves the house determined to find out where she really comes from, who she really is and maybe, just maybe, find her real mother. Telling no-one what she's up to or where she's going, April skips school and begins the search she's dreamed about all her life. It's a blur of social workers, children's homes and special schools as April revisits and recalls the key scenes of her fragmented past. It's a painful journey, sometimes frightening but there's also friendship and love and laughter. And now she's started, there's no going back - April must find her mother.

Directed by

Juliet May

Written by

Helen Blakeman

Music

Adrian Johnston

Cast

Dakota Blue Richards Juliet Stevenson Saffron Coomber Poppy Lee Friar Jenna Boyd George Bustin David Haig Marika McKennell Di Botcher Lucy Hutchinson Ian Kelsey Carol Starks Jane McDowell Simon Roberts Joanna Dunn Alex Hewett Ben McKay Peter Bramhill Chris Ryman Leah Coombes Elijah Baker Nicola Duffett Tat Whalley Leah Harvey Louis Payne Sylvia Hodgson Lizzy Clark Waleed Akhtar Chizzy Akudolu