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Just finished watching a preview of "Some Dogs Bite". It's a new independent British film about care, crime and adoption in the UK today. It looks at the lives of three young half brothers. 18 year old H (Aaron Taylor)ÌýCasey, 14 (Thomas Sangster) and 10 month old baby Severino have been split up after their mum dies. Casey is in care, Severino is with foster parents with a view to being adopted and H is adrift, living in a flat, drinking, surviving on petty crime and dodging the police. So far, so grim. But I was only reading the blurb at this stage.Ìý85 minutes later from the opening shot to the fade out for the end titles I hadn'tÌýmoved from my seat.

The screenplay is by Dublin born writer Lin Couglan. It was aÌýjob in a prison as a writer in residence ten years ago that got her thinking. She says that as she heard the stories from the inmates she was struck "by the intense loyalty the young men and women had for their family, especially their siblings". And she goes on to say that "these are children who have often never been parented, nurtured or comforted....still had their humanity intact, despite having often committed crimes where they clearly had little or no ability to empathiseÌýwith their victim".Ìý

InÌýone of the most telling scenes in the film, played out against almost Monarch of the Glen kind of scenery in Scotland (where the brothers have gone in search of Casey's biological father), Casey says to H "We're no good, but we ain't bad....it's just we're not anything special".Ìý

This film shows that they are.

It premiers on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ 3 tomorrow night Wed 10th Nov 21:00.