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Jaime (1999) movie with subtitles - video Dailymotion

Language: Portuguese. Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese. Jaime (1999) is a great portrait of a real problem that´s common in that region, Oporto, especially in that specific area, Ribeira, where the people are very poor. A woman moves in with her lover after taking her small son from her husband. Desperate to reunite his parents, the youngster believes that if he can just recover his father's stolen motorcycle, everything would be good again, so he sets out to raise enough money to purchase him a new one. a non-sentimental story about Portuguese street youngsters under the age of 18. Adolescent bakery worker is dropped at a hospital after losing his finger in the first scene of the film. The employer tells the teen's father to tell the physicians that he lost a digit while playing with a knife, but fearing an inquiry, the boss fires his other minor workers, including Jaime, who is 13 years old. Jaime is trying to put his shattered family back together. His mother kicked his father out of the house and is now seeing a shady Brazilian. Since his moped was stolen, his grieving father has moved into a hut and has been unemployed. Jaime's aspirations of reuniting his family by purchasing a replacement scooter for his father are crushed when the Brazilian takes his money; Jaime then moves out of his mother's house and into his father's. Meanwhile, Jaime and his 12-year-old friend Ulisses sleep in school during the day and seek for work at night.