I, Daniel Blake | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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Synopsis Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) is a 59-year-old widowed carpenter who must rely on welfare after a recent heart attack leaves him unable to work. Despite his doctor's diagnosis, British authorities deny Blake's benefits and tell him to return to his job.

Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) is a 59-year-old widowed carpenter who must rely on welfare after a recent heart attack leaves him unable to work. Despite his doctor's diagnosis, British authorities deny Blake's benefits and tell him to return to his job. As Daniel navigates his way through an agonizing appeal process, he begins to develop a strong bond with a destitute, single mother (Hayley Squires) who's struggling to take care of her two children.

I, Daniel Blake / Film synopsis

Target Audience

The audience I, Daniel Blake is targeting is mainly adults and possibly teenagers. The storyline is aimed at adults and is most likely to be understood by adults through it's issue of evolving the film around unemployment and illnesses.

I, Daniel Blake eventually amassed $12.45 million worlwide including $4.27 million in the UK and $6.4 million in France. A healthy profit for a small independent film such as this.

I, Daniel Blake is a low budget social realist film, funded by the BFI and BBC. It was filmed largely on location (hospital, job centre etc.), features lesser known actors and does not rely on special effects.

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Despite medical evidence and GP support, Blake is told that he is not eligible to receive state benefits. The film powerfully shows how the knotty bureaucracy of the benefits system robs claimants of their humanity and reduces them to a number.

However, to be truly successful critically and commercially, the film's production and marketing must work in synergy together to guarantee the desired audience is reached. Ken Loach's 2016 film, I, Daniel Blake, is a perfect example of how to market a film toward people's cultural and political beliefs.

We know some of the funding it received (e.g. £300k from the BFI) and can estimate it to be around £2 million. Compare that to the $165 million that it cost to make our other CSP, Doctor Strange. I, Daniel Blake was exhibited in 24 countries and performed well in Europe and other smaller countries.

A UK/French co-production, it received funding from the BFI and BBC Films. It became Ken Loach's largest grossing film at the box office (taking over $8 million), was highly critically acclaimed and generated much debate due to the contemporary social and political issues addressed in the film.

How was I, Daniel Blake advertised? ›

I, Daniel Blake made use of grassroot campaigns including taste maker screenings, street marketing, 'takeovers of refional cinemas, I, Daniel Blake speech video, etc.

Budget: £3.5 million. Box Office: $12 million Worldwide. Won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and was nominated for many awards including several BAFTAs. Opened debate about U.K. social conditions. social realist film, filmed on location in existing regional (in Newcastle) buildings (hospital, job centre etc.)

New Line Productions, Inc., doing business as New Line Cinema, is an American film and television production studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).