2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

catsmad This film can only be appreciated by someone who lives or has lived in London, especially in the late 60s. The important thing about Poor Cow is not so much as what's happening close up on screen involving fairly inane characters, but what's happening behind them. The film is a rich slice of what life was really like for people who knew little of or could afford less of the so called swinging sixties. I dont think Ken Loach wanted people to identify or feel sympathy for the main character; The woman is basically good hearted but this nice trait is soon destroyed by her lies (to Dave in Prison concerning other men) and by her stout working class expose "All you really need is a man, a kid and a couple of rooms"Dont forget, this film will mean nothing to anyone who dosen't actually remember how bad some parts of London actually were in the 60s and dont blame our poor cow for her blinkered closed outlook. This film was well before the days of career women. A career woman of the 60s would likely have been regarded a closet lesbian and little else. The film was made well before the days of women's emancipation and I think most modern day audiences will miss that. You cant appreciate this film until you actually THINK POOR SIXTIES..... when the internet would have been used for fishing. Watch it again....I swear you can smell rotting vegetation all the way through it.....or was that my Cats.

cooked Not a film of entertainment, but of real lives & limited ambition for the working class in 60's. Enjoyable because of my upbringing, not sure it'd work for most people. Typical Loach. Full of TV actors/actresses of 70's/80's/90's.

Edgar Soberon Torchia Back in the 60's, this grim study of Joy, a young proletarian wife, was the introduction to the career of Ken Loach, who became one of the most distinguished and respected British filmmakers of all time. By then I knew very little about Brecht, politics or the reality of the under-privileged, and I was quite impressed by the aesthetics of the film, its free style, its austere color cinematography, and Joy's monologues in front of the camera. I was also much surprised to find that Terence Stamp (who had become a celebrity, thanks to "Billy Budd", "The Collector" and "Modesty Blaise") had so little screen time. Although 20th Century Fox distributed "Poor Cow" in Panama, Loach did not join mainstream cinema (which this film hardly is) and I lost contact with his films. I just heard of his successes, "Kes", "Family Life", "Black Jack". until I caught up in the 80's. The beautiful title song by Donovan, by the way, is available in his anthology "Troubadour".

Ron-36 It's been over 30 years now but I still remember that this movie was the worst I've ever seen. I would have thought that in this length of time something worse would have been filmed but I was mistaken. I just finished watching "STARSHIP TROOPERS" and it came mighty close but it was still more entertaining than " POOR COW ".