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Cathy Come Home

Cathy Come Home

Nov 16, 1966
75 min
DramaTV Movie
7.0/ 10
23 votes

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Cathy and Reg are a couple with three young children, who find their life spiralling into poverty when Reg loses his well-paid job. Gripping and emotional, Cathy Come Home remains a truly ground-breaking piece of dramatic fiction, engaging viewers with social issues, such as homelessness, unemployment and the rights of mothers to keep their own children.

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