I, Daniel Blake
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A 59-year-old Newcastle carpenter convalescing after a severe heart attack is denied employment and support allowance by a privatized bureaucratic assessment algorithm despite his doctor's orders, befriending a desperate young single mother struggling with food-bank poverty and spraying a desperate graffiti manifesto on the welfare office wall: 'I, Daniel Blake, am a citizen, nothing more, nothing less.' Ken Loach and Paul Laverty's heartbreaking second Cannes Palme d'Or-winning masterpiece starring Dave Johns and Hayley Squires.
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