Wasp (2003)

Recommended
UK
Short Film
Writer/Director: Andrea Arnold
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
Cast: Natalie Press, Danny Dyer, Jodie Mitchell, Molly Griffiths, Kaitlyn Raynor, Danny Daley, Lizzie Colbert, Ashley Routledge, Tabitha Crewe

A council estate dwelling single mother with four children, when asked out on a date by an old friend for which she is unable to find a babysitter, contrives to take them with her, leaving them outside of the pub with a glass of pop and a couple of bags of crisps, determined to keep their existence from her potential suitor, in Arnold’s stomach-churning examination of abject poverty and parental negligence. Iain.Stott