Like most British realist dramas, When Did You Last See Your Father? is stuffed with team-player acting.
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06/05/08
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When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)
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Reviews Counted:91
Fresh:66
Rotten:25
Average Rating:6.6/10
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?
The dynamics are overfamiliar and the whole movie feels vaguely punitive, an exercise in human misery that’s not improved by director Anand Tucker’s rote tear-jerking.
06/05/08
It'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 CriticI have never really seen anything quite like it, and I must therefore wholeheartedly recommend this wondrous work for its magnificently moving father-son performances by Mr. Broadbent and Mr. Firth.
06/04/08
Top CriticThe timing of this film's release before Father's Day couldn't be more perfect, because anyone with an older father should be able to find some resonance with Morrison's personal story.
06/04/08
A low-key Big Fish minus the whimsical fantasy.
06/01/08
Exploring the difficult, complex bonds between fathers and sons, this restrained tearjerker from Anand Tucker (Hilary & Jackie, Shopgirl) culls familiar terrain with intelligence and a towering performance by Jim Broadbent as the troubled patriarch.
05/29/08
Even bedridden, Broadbent walks away with the film; his son's never outshone him and Firth can't do much besides sulk.
05/15/08
Delivers the expected to audiences seeking intelligent, engaging entertainment with some tasteful melodramatic twists.
05/14/08
Too episodic but benefits from crackerjack acting and lush period photography.
05/06/08
Although the subject matter may not seem obviously appealing, it’s amazing what finely attuned directorial talent, script-writing finesse and superlative acting can achieve.
02/06/08
The film alternates subtly, seamlessly between past and present and constantly uses mirrors to suggest the different meanings of reflection, of seeing things through a glass darkly, of viewing events from different angles.
10/20/07
Watchable drama with superb performances from a strong cast, though it ultimately feels too self-indulgent to be emotionally engaging.
10/05/07
This is one of those commendably well-made and a trifle old-fashioned films which nowadays will probably find as large an audience on television as in the cinema.
10/05/07
A tender and moving Britflick that’s sure to land a couple of Bafta noms next year.
10/05/07
Smoothly interwoven flashbacks dramatise both a relationship and an absence of one – or at least the blanks in one.
10/05/07
It's a great song of innocence and embarrassment, with a lively, gregarious performance at its centre by Jim Broadbent as Arthur and a quieter but no less effective one by debutant Beard.
10/05/07
This deeply felt film from Anand Tucker deserves to be seen.
10/05/07
The film is sweet, simplified and a bit syrupy on the soundtrack.
10/05/07
A decade ago Morrison’s biography explored a grief that, I suspect unwittingly, indeed shockingly, exposed the shallow times. The film doesn’t cut the same mustard.
10/05/07
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