London Town (2016)

We all enjoued this movie very much. The audience consisted of myself and my spouse, who were young in the time of the Clash, and my son, who was clearly not. The Clash were punk light. Their music is sincerely anti-Thatcher, who allowed white supremacy to boil to the surface, pitting lower and middle income Brits against each other rather than the upper class, who deserved a bulk of the ire. The main character is Shay, a 15 year old boy whose mother has abandoned her family to live in a squat and pursue her dreams, leaving Nick, the father, to fend for the family. Shay does what he can but has quite a bit of resentment about it, as you might expect, and that gets even more pronounced when he meets Vivian, a street wise girl more or less his own age. She like Shay for what he is, and when Nick has a terrible accident and Shay is left to fend for the family, she does everything she can to help, from teaching Shay to drive, to sitting for Alice, to helping Shay grow up a bit. It is a sweet coming of age story told against a grim political back drop with a soundtrack of protest songs sung by likable performers who actually identify with the plight of the lower class. Recommended.