And When Did You Last See Your Father? ( When Did You Last See Your Father? )

And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: When Did You Last See Your Father?
Screened, competed or awarded at:
British Independent Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Dolby TrueHD )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2007 and produced in:
Ireland ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Anand Tucker

Written By:
David Nicholls
Blake Morrison

Actors:
Bradley Johnson ..... Blake (Child)
Jim Broadbent ..... Arthur
Juliet Stevenson ..... Kim
Alannah Barlow ..... Gillian (Child)
Chris Middleton ..... Racing Steward (as Christopher Middleton)
Colin Firth ..... Blake
Gina McKee ..... Kathy
Elliot Avery ..... Peter
Rhiannon Howden ..... Sophie
Tom Butcher ..... Dr. Taggart
Claire Skinner ..... Gillian
Sarah Lancashire ..... Beaty
Naomi Allisstone ..... Josie
Matthew Beard ..... Blake (Teen)
Tara Berwin ..... Gillian (Teen)

Synopsis:

Based on the award winning best selling book by Blake Morrison, And When You Last See Your Father is a moving and candid memoir of a son living his last weeks with his dying father who is diagnosed with terminal cancer and only a few weeks left to live. Blake Morrison (Colin Firth) travelled to Yorkshire to stay with his mother in the village where he grew up. As his fathers condition worsened Blake contemplated their shared experiences, the intimacies and the irritations of their relationship. After his fathers death Blake questions the nature of the bond between them, articulately expressing the contradictions, frustrations, love and loss abound into the complicated relationships which most of us have with our parents as we grow up

And When Did You Last See Your Father? is Blake Morrison's moving and candid memoir of his father in the weeks leading up to his death. When Arthur Morrison was diagnosed with terminal cancer he had only a few weeks left to live. Morrison traveled to Yorkshire to stay with his mother in the village where he grew up. He visited his father at the hospital where he had spent so much time with his own patients as a GP. As his father's condition worsened Morrison contemplated their shared experiences, the intimacies and the irritations of their relationship. After his father's death Morrison questions the nature of the bond between them, articulately expressing the contradictions, frustrations, love and loss bound into the complicated relationships which most of us have with our parents as we grow up.

The writer Blake Morrison has a non-resolved relationship with his bragger and wolf father Arthur Morrison. However, when he is diagnosed with a terminal intestine cancer, Blake leaves his wife and children and travel to the village where he spent his childhood and adolescence to help his mother and his sister to take care of Arthur along his last days. The location brings recollections of his problematic relationship with his father.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 18 July, 2013.

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