Sneak Peek: I, Daniel Blake
In theaters December 23, 2016 (limited).
Daniel Blake (59) has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.
Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Paul Laverty
Producer: Rebecca O’Brien
Cast: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires
Distributor: Sundance Selects
Running Time: 100 minutes
Rated: R
