A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. She marries and has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone she takes up with his mate (another thief) who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up in the nick. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure.... (Full plot summary below)
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A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. She marries and has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone she takes up with his mate (another thief) who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up in the nick. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure.
Leave your thoughts about Poor Cow.
| Times (UK)Kate MuirAn early gem from the social realist movement. |
| Time OutTom HuddlestonA time-capsule character study of great warmth and compassion. |
| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsMoody, poetic and artful. Another side of Ken Loach. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewNot a patch upon Loach's best work, largely because he falls into all the usual traps of kitchen sink realism. |
| Total FilmJames MottramAs a portrait of a struggling mum it's spot-on. |
| Monthly Film BulletinMFB CriticsNot even Carol White as Joy, glowing with vitality and beautifully modulating the heroine's different moods, can make of Poor Cow more than a superficial, slightly patronising incursion into the nether realms of social realism. |
| GuardianRichard RoudIf I hadn't seen Poor Cow with my own eyes, I would never have believed that a film with so much to offer could ultimately be so downright awful. |
| Film4Clark CollisAlthough Loach's heart is not so much in the right place as nailed to it, there is no doubt that this makes for gruelling viewing, lacking the glimpses of humour he would show in later work. |
| User ReviewSiân PI'm a big fan of Ken Loach. And Carol White. And Terence Stamp. This is a good film, usual depressing stuff from Loach. I believe Soderberg used snippets in The Limey, to show Stamp as a young stud. |
| User ReviewJason CLoach at his most innovative. For me the overall aesthetic is a little more satisying than the faux-documentary approach of, say, 'Cathy Come Home', while once again the story lends itself to contemporary issues of the day. It's also ground-breaking in its use of contemporary music (in this case, Donovan), a relatively underused practice back in 1967. |
