Pure

First and foremost a family drama rather than a wallow in drug-scare conventions, Scottish director Gillies MacKinnon's tenth feature revolves around ten-year-old Paul (Harry Eden), whom we first see bringing his mother, Mel (Molly Parker), breakfast in bed before getting himself ready for school. But Mel's breakfast is cigarettes and heroin — Paul believes it's his mother's medicine — and the widowed Mel relies on drugs and her dealer, Lenny (David Wenham), to get though the day. She relies on Paul, who's taken on the responsibilities of someone much older, for everything else. She's so consumed by her addiction that she forgets his 10th birthday, but it's not until...