AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER?

Status: Completed

Director:

ANAND TUCKER (Hilary and Jackie, Shopgirl)

Producer:

ELIZABETH KARLSEN (Ladies In Lavender, The Crying Game, Little Voice, Mrs. Harris)
STEPHEN WOOLLEY (Breakfast On Pluto, Intermission, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, The Company of Wolves, The Crying Game)

Writer:

BLAKE MORRISON - Book
DAVID NICHOLLS - Screenplay (Cold Feet, Simpatico, Starter for Ten)

Principal Cast

JIM BROADBENT (Moulin Rouge!, Gangs of New York, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
COLIN FIRTH (Nanny McPhee, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Love Actually / Girl with a Pearl Earring / Pride and Prejudice
JULIET STEVENSON (Bend It Like Beckham, Truly Madly Deeply, Mona Lisa Smile)

Genre:

Drama

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PRESS REACTIONS

The Times
Kevin Maher
“Loved it, completely loved it. So many moments that were so utterly well judged i.e. the death scene (just looking at watch, instead of wailing etc). Great performance by teenage Blake. And Firth too – massive newfound respect for the Firth-meister. Thought, for once, that his sense of buttoned-up emotionalism was perfectly pitched for the role. Loved the seeming looseness of the narrative too. The sense that it wasn’t building up to some watertight resolution, but instead to an overall portrait of the messiness of human life. Stunning”.

Daily Express
Pauline McLeod
“A film that will resonate with every single person who sees it because you can't help but think about your own relationship with your parents and of course, for many men, it will be particularly poignant. In turn, moving and funny and some toe-curling, cringing moments. Jim Broadbent, in particular, marvellous as the irritating bluffer that he plays”.

Marie Claire
Sian Parry
“I loved it, thought it was really beautifully acted, and both of us had big fat tears by the end”.

GQ
Alex Bilmes
“I thought it was beautifully done and very, very moving. Really, I thought it was one of the best things I’ve seen for ages”.

The Sunday Telegraph
Vicki Reid
“I thought it was wonderful - so beautifully filmed and the performances were amazing. Particularly loved Matthew Beard - a future star. The security guard was laughing as everybody was leaving, saying if he had known there was going to be this much crying he would have issued tissues to everybody”.

Daily Mail
Baz Bambigoye
“And When Did You Last See Your Father is one of the best pictures I’ve seen dealing with …relationships….I marvelled at the care that Tucker took to get the on-screen relationships right…Matthew Beard is a real find”

heat
Charles Gant
“Loved it, especially Matthew Beard's performance. And Jim Broadbent. I think Colin Firth had the trickier role; he doesn't get to do a lot. Preferred it to the book, actually; a great adaptation. Anand's direction slightly attention seeking (!), but can't fault his work with the actors; congrats all round”.

Evening Standard
Nick Roddick
…Anand Tucker achieves the near-impossible by delivering a movie that is as engrossing and emotionally powerful as Morrison's book. It is a film likely to strike a chord in almost everybody.

Heading a wonderful cast, Jim Broadbent is at the peak of his formidable form …

Synopsis

Based on Blake Morrison’s best selling memoir, “And When Did You Last See Your Father?”, is ultimately a father son love story. From scholarly Blake’s fraught and some times humiliating teenage years growing up with a charismatic, overbearing and adulterous father; through to the ultimate grief of watching him die, as an adult and father himself, the story takes us on a heart-rending and often humorous journey in which Blake revisits his past, comes to terms with some difficult home truths and finally learns to accept that one’s parents are not always accountable to their children.