Broken (2013)

Three families live in a London cul de sac -- one is comprised of a single hothead father with three growing-up-too-fast girls, one is an older couple with a mentally-challenged adult son, and the last is a barrister, his daughter and son, and their nanny. The families affect each other in ways often bad but sometimes good. It’s just life. And it was beautiful.

There’s a lot of story here, but I was grabbed from the beginning and just in awe of the storytelling. The girl who plays the main character “Skunk” is a born actress -- this is her first film and she held the screen without problem. She also sings on the soundtrack and is just lovely.

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