Sweet sixteen
(DVD) 

Special features: Director's commentary [audio feature]; Deleted scenes (14 min.).

Educational and home use only.

Photography, Barry Ackroyd ; editor, Jonathan Morris ; music, George Fenton ; production designer, Martin Johnson ; costume designer, Carole K. Millar ; research, Pamela Marshall.

Martin Compston, Annmarie Fulton, William Ruane, Michelle Abercromby, Michelle Coulter, Gary McCormack.

Originally produced as a British motion picture in 2002.

There's precious little sweetness in Liam's life in the weeks before his 16th birthday: his mother is in prison, and his stepfather Stan is a bullying small-time drug dealer. Liam wants a normal life with mom, his older sister and her baby boy, in a caravan he picked out himself. Naïve, driven Liam comes to the attention of a local crime lord, who offers him employment--but with conditions that are merciless. Liam is locked into a destiny that he can't escape, by a country that has written him off. His dreams of escaping to a better life sabotaged by his own refusal to the misery common to his class.

MPAA rating: Rated R; for pervasive strong language, drug content, and some violence.

DVD; Dolby digital 5.1; widescreen presentation 16x9.

In English with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned.

Winner, 2002 Cannes Film Festival, Best Screenplay-Paul Laverty; European Film Awards FIPRESCI Prize (Critics' Prize), Ken Loach; BAFTA Scotland Award, Best Actor in a Feature Film-Martin Compston.