Hold me Tight, Let me Go

"For the forty children who call it home, Mulberry Bush is their last chance. Excluded from school for extreme behaviour, and often having suffered severe emotional trauma, they are given three years at the Oxford boarding school to try to turn their lives around. Acclaimed documentary maker Kim Longinotto has once again turned her compassionate lens onto people living in extraordinary circumstances. The fragile young boys at the heart of her film lash out in shockingly extreme ways -- hitting, swearing and spitting their way through the misery of their blighted childhoods. Endlessly patient and determined staff members verbally reason with the boys, whilst often having to restrain them physically. Hold Me Tight is ultimately a heartbreaking, engrossing study of dysfunction - of what happens when families break down. It also pays witness to the tremendous influence that adults hold -- for bad and for good -- upon growing children." Carol Nahra

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Children
• Mulberry Bush
• Kim Longinotto
• Boarding School
• Documentary
• Abuse
• Teacher
• Behavior
• Emotional Trauma

[BeaMedeiros1]

@LiveLifeBabyGirl I know, I go through that in school. And I am 15 and they needed 10 people to put me in a papoose, JUST becaus ei keptt fighting and scwerming around. >_< OVER EXAGERATE!

[LiveLifeBabyGirl]

@BeaMedeiros1 9 year old children who are capable of killing poeple much? they need that many poeple

[LiveLifeBabyGirl]

@SKATEsoFREEly i doubt that but it was a funny story

[SKATEsoFREEly]

haha ive been restrained befor i broke out of it and threw a chair at my princibal and gave her a bloody nose an 2 teeth came out she calle the cops an i went to juvie

[roopeehoox]

Can't believe the callous comments on here. The kids in this school have been through grievous trauma, the sort we see in paper headlines like Baby P. For example one student when 3 years old was rescued from a paedophile ring, in which he saw other children murdered by members of his own family. Read the article by Amelia Hill from the Observer.

[BeaMedeiros1]

Yo, 108 Staff and 40 kids. Over exagerated on staff much?

[smackology1]

Did she have to sit on him? She looks tough. He can't overpower her at all, she's got him.

[coolfrenzy2]

bitch slapper?