This is grim, as it should be given this is a very real and common place scenario these days. The casting and acting is great, all the main parts ring true. My main problem with is the somewhat happy ending, as this is not how I think most of these situations pan out. It also didn't feel believable that his Mum suddenly becomes Mrs Doubtfire after not bothering to ask where the money has come from for the last 6 months while he was wagging school. I know the gravity of what happened might have shocked her into action, but still, I didn't buy that a Mum that neglected him so badly in that time and must have surely known where the money was coming from, could change so much. Maybe I'm just cynical.
Review of County Lines
