“Sorry We Missed You” (**1/2 out of four) was an earnest but meandering story set in England in which a UK delivery driver (Kris Hitchen) and his wife (Debby Honeywood) struggle to raise a family and survive but end up overwhelmed by the various struggles of labor exploitation and raising a delinquent son (Rhys Stone) and trying to stay afloat through it all. Director Ken Loach employs his usual working-class and humanistic touch to characters who are simply trying to survive and no know other way of life but story wanders too much and film doesn’t so much end as stop. Naturalistic and powerful acting from all (especially Honeywood) makes this worthwhile.

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