When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)

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Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Jun 6, 2008

Running Time: 92 mins.

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

starring: Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Juliet Stevenson, Matthew Beard, Gina McKee, Carey Mulligan, Elaine Cassidy, Tilly Curtis, Sarah Lancashire, Justin McDonald

director: Anand Tucker

When Did You Last See Your Father?

When Did You Last See Your Father? [And When Did You Last See Your Father?]

Blake Morrison deals with his father Arthur’s terminal illness and imminent death. Blake’s memories of everything funny, embarrassing and upsetting about his childhood and teens are interspersed with the present, as he struggles to come to terms with his father, and their history of conflict, and learns to accept that one’s parents are not always accountable to their children.

A movie every father and son should be required to see together. Jim Broadbent's towering performance should be remembered at awards time, and Colin Firth is perfect in this touching drama of memory and transition.

Story

Positioned as a memory play, When Did You Last See Your Father? attempts to explore the lifelong relationship between a father dying of terminal cancer and his son, told through flashbacks and present-day scenes. Arthur Morrison (Broadbent) and his wife Kim (Juliet Stevenson)…