Rocks

(2020)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 100 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2020

Runtime: 94 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Sarah Gavron

Cast: Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, D'Angelou Osei-Kissiedu, Shaneigha-Monik Greyson, Руби Стоукс, Tawheda Begum, Afi Okaidja, Anastasia Dymitrow, Сара Найлз, Layo-Christina Akinlude

Plot

15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone finds out that their mother has left them. Against all odds, and with the help of her loyal friends, she evades the authorities and navigates the most defining days of her young life.

Shola (Bukky Bakray), or Rocks, as she's known, lives in a London council flat with her younger brother Emmanuel (D'angelou Osei Kissiedu) and their single mother. Mum is busy and stressed, leaving Rocks to spend all her free time with school friends. One day, she comes home to find her life radically altered: she is suddenly on her own with a child to take care of. Gavron could easily have steered Rocks into miserabilism, but delivers instead a surprising portrait of resilience. Rocks is mercurial, impulsive, and deeply sensitive - not unusual for her age, she sometimes makes desperately poor decisions, for what look to her like good reasons. When her closest friend Sumaya (Kosar Ali) tries to help, Rocks doesn't know how to accept it, blinded by Sumaya's two-parent household and relative comfort.