Hidden Agenda (1990)
Directed by Ken Loach
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.
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His domestic films â Riff-Raff, My Name Is Joe â are funnier and subtler, but even in some of these, Loach, like many middle-class champions of the poor and oppressed, has a habit of defining his working-class characters solely by their oppression, either idealizing them (in the awful Hidden Agenda) or rendering them so degraded by their circumstances (Ladybird, Ladybird) that itâs hard to find anything to like in them at all.
Sweet Sixteen doesn’t muster the angry outcry of Loach’s Hidden Agenda or the disillusioned heartbreak of Ladybird, Ladybird, but it does convey the cycle of disillusionment among poverty row parents and children.