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Drama | 2022 | PG-13. 1hr 42min
Closed Captioning | Open Captions on Wed | Audio Description CAST: BIll Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp DIRECTOR: Oliver Hermanus NOW PLAYING

Set in 1952 London, the film will follow Williams, a veteran civil servant, who has become a small cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding post-WWII England. As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns he has a fatal illness. Thus begins his quest to find some meaning to his seemingly grey, monotonous life before it slips away.

 

He first attempts, with limited success, to throw himself into debauchery during a wild night in Brighton in the company of a bohemian writer he befriends there. Then, arriving back in London, he ignores family and work responsibilities for days on end. But soon he becomes intrigued by Margaret, a young co-worker in his office, who appears to exemplify exactly what life and living is - and what may so far have passed him by. As their friendship grows, she - inadvertently - shows him a way to face down his mortality; how to harness his years of experience and dedication into a final supreme effort to push through, against all odds, a modest, much-delayed project for children in a poor district of East London.


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This quiet tale of an ordinary 1950s London man facing the end of his life is a joy: elegantly written, movingly performed, evocatively filmed.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Really quite something: a rare remake that only augments and enriches the original. For Bill Nighy, meanwhile, it feels in every sense like the role of a lifetime.
John Nugent, Empire
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