The winning aspect of this adaptation of a best-selling autobiography is in the director's management of the points of view.
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When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:17
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: Sensitive to a fault, Tucker's adaptation of the Morrison novel is nonetheless solidly scripted and well-acted; guard your heartstrings.
Theatrical Release:Jun 6, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $732,392
Synopsis: Celebrated English actors Jim Broadbent and Colin Firth team up for this moving drama about a father and son. Based on Blake Morrison's autobiographical novel, WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER?... [More]
Starring: Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Juliet Stevenson, Gina McKee
Director: Anand Tucker
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Reviews for When Did You Last See Your Father?
Top CriticEverything in Water Lilies is more guarded, more complex and far more interesting than it seems.
07/11/08
Top CriticA small, beautifully acted piece adapted from the British poet Blake Morrison's memoir.
07/04/08
Top CriticWhat ensures our pleasure is the dialogue, which is supple, and the quality of the acting.
06/29/08
Top CriticIt can be painful to watch as it so painstakingly captures the slow process of loss. But it's worth every last teardrop.
06/26/08
Top CriticThe movie is slick and treacly and goes nowhere that hasn't been gone before.
06/26/08
Top CriticA haunting and heartfelt drama that may startle some viewers with sporadic shocks of recognition.
06/20/08
Top CriticThis father-son drama never rises above the archetypal: its conflict will be familiar to all, its resolution a surprise to none.
06/13/08
Top CriticThe source is Blake Morrison's memoir of the same title, an impressionistic account that the filmmakers -- director Anand Tucker with screenwriter David Nichols -- have cast impeccably and, without losing the nuance, shaped into a strong narrative arc.
06/13/08
Top CriticThis is a film of regret, and judging by what we see of the characters, it deserves to be.
06/13/08
Top CriticThe catharsis here is all the more moving because of what wasnt finished, what remained unsaid and what in the answer to the titles question proves unknowable.
06/13/08
Top CriticWhen Did You Last See Your Father? taps into the conflicting feelings so many of us can have about parents who haunt us because they're difficult, which is part of what makes them irreplaceable.
06/06/08
Top CriticWhen Did You Last See Your Father?” is grown-up, civilized fare, even though the whole thing might have been improved with a bit of messiness.
06/06/08
Top CriticWhen Did You Last See Your Father? is an eloquent and affecting evocation of a man who remains bigger than life even as he approaches death.
06/06/08
Top CriticThe film is not only poignant, but nuanced, never offering pat answers, predictable revelations or easy sentimentality.
06/06/08
Top Critic'Pretty good, for a movie about death' isn't really good enough.
06/06/08
Top CriticIt's a lovely attempt to capture how the loss of a parent can create in grown children waves of remorse and fear, pride and blame.
06/06/08
Top CriticOne would only hope that a film about death and dying wouldn't have to feel quite so lifeless.
06/06/08
Top CriticDirector Tucker's virtuosity is in marrying Blake's memories to the present and finding they are one.
06/05/08
Top CriticIt's easy to make a movie about fathers and sons. It's much harder to make one that resonates with emotional honesty.
06/04/08
Top CriticLatest News for When Did You Last See Your Father?
November 01, 2008:
A keen and candid subjective scrutiny of parenting through the eyes of a damaged offspring, but a relentlessly grim, insular perspective that rarely ventures outside those long festering psychological wounds. 
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