
Someone's Daughter, Someone's Son
2024-02-16 · 87 min · Not rated
Now a successful filmmaker, Lorna Tucker was once a teenage runaway sleeping rough on the streets of London. For this frank, forceful and inspiring documentary, she returns to her former haunts and speaks to current and former homeless people about why, twenty-five years later, record numbers of people are still reduced to living on Britain's streets.
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- Lorna Tucker
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- MBK Productions, Dartmouth Films
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- United Kingdom
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- Released
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