Sweet Sixteen (2002 film)

Sweet Sixteen is a 2002 drama film directed by Ken Loach. The film tells the story of a teenage boy from a troubled background, Liam, who dreams of starting afresh with his mother who is completing a prison term. Liams attempts to raise money for the two of them are set against the backdrop of Greenock, Port Glasgow and the coast at Gourock.

Stan and Rab take Liam in Rabs car on a visit to his mother in Cornton Vale Prison, and try to force him to smuggle drugs to his mother while they create a distraction. In the event, Liam refuses to cooperate by passing the drugs over. When driving home his companions beat him up he fights back and gets away. Liam arrives back to find that he has been expelled from his grandfathers flat, and his belongings thrown down into the front garden including his telescope, which has been broken. Liam then moves to his sister Chantelles nearby home in Port Glasgow. Chantelle agrees to let Liam live in her house if hes good for Chantelles little son, Callum. She has been taking free evening classes to get work in a call centre, and implores Liam to do the same because she wants Liam to do something more constructive with his own life.When Liam takes Calum for a walk along Greenock Esplanade, his friend Pinball arrives in a stolen car and insists on taking them joyriding along the coast. They drive up through the Cloch caravan trailer park where Liam sees a caravan for sale in a spot overlooking the scenic Firth of Clyde. Liam, who loves his mother very much, fantasizes that he, his sister, and his mother can escape to the seaside and live in the caravan, away from Stan and Rabs wrath. To purchase it he and Pinball steal a delivery of drugs from Stans house and sell them, doing the very things Liam once hated claiming that they will never go anywhere by selling cheap cigarettes. They soon they develop entrepreneur skills and raise several thousand pounds, which they pay as a deposit towards the caravan in Liams mothers name. ........

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