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Angry Boy( 1950)

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Alexander Hammid's sensitive narrative of how a pre-adolescent boy is helped by a psychiatrist to come to terms with his feelings.

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Jan 06 2025
    Though I wonder what 2020s child psychiatrists might make of this now, this is still quite a poignant scripted documentary about "Tommy". He's caught helping himself to some cash from his teacher's handbag, but instead of punishing him, the principal proposes he sees a doctor who can try to find out the causes of his behaviour. It's not like he's a tearaway or disruptive at school so with the consent and co-operation of his parents, a course of relaxed and informal "treatment" begins. Meantime, we discover that his dad has been offered a job in New York and that his mum isn't so keen on any mov...

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    English

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    Keywords

    • elementary school
    • school teacher
    • troubled childhood
    • child psychologist
    • social guidance
    • trouble at home
    • kleptomaniac
    • bad parenting
    • grown ups
    • strict mother