My Life so Far (1999)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 8
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Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 6
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Director Hugh Hudson, who made his directorial debut with the award-winning Chariots Of Fire, returns to the theme of British life in the 1920s in the bittersweet family drama My Life So Far. Gamma Macintosh (Rosemary Harris) is the matriarch of a family that inhabits Harewood House, a castle in the Scottish Highlands. Besides Gamma, the adult heads of the household are her daughter, Moira (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and Moira's husband Edward Pettigrew (Colin Firth), a mildly eccentric
Jul 23, 1999 Wide
Mar 8, 2005
Miramax
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Cast
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Colin Firth
Edwart Pettigrew -
Rosemary Harris
Gamma Macintosh -
Irène Jacob
Heloise -
Tcheky Karyo
Gabriel Chenoux -
Mary Elizabeth Mastranton...
Moira Pettigrew -
Malcolm McDowell
Morris Macintosh -
Kelly Macdonald
Elspeth Pettigrew -
Robbie Norman
Frarser Pettigrew -
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Quite endearing.
I found myself involved during the screening but the experience had faded a few hours later.
With a fine cast, an inviting and pastoral setting, director Hugh Hudson has created a winning morality play that feels like a leisurely vacation.
A lovely coming of age drama that reveals the bounties of a life filled with wonder.
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This film is an often charming and somewhat painfull look at one young (Scottish) boys coming of age and to the realization that his family (particularly his father) are not untouchable icons (as we tend to think of them when we are children), but are in fact flawed, repressed, real live human beings.
The film is JUST homoginized enough to loose a bit of it's potential, but is still not your average "family film" by any means.
The good solid performance from this impressive cast.