Rating: PG13
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 06/06/2008(USA
Release Date: 11/04/2008
SubTitles: French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2/DD5.1
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Sony Pictures
Adapted from poet
Blake Morrison's best-selling memoir by screenwriter
David Nicholls and directed for the screen by
Anand Tucker,
And When Did You Last See Your Father? explores -- like its source material -- the complex, manifold emotional layers of a father-and-son relationship as it shifts and evolves over the passing decades. At the film's center is
Blake Morrison himself, who for as long as he can remember has lived in the overarching shadow of his physician father,
Arthur (
Jim Broadbent) -- falling prey to feelings of embarrassment from the old man, as well as occasional awe. In the 1950s, when
Blake (
Bradley Johnson) was a child, the boy watched as
Arthur partook in socially uncouth behavior such as wheedling his way into clubs to which he didn't belong, and carrying on an extramarital affair with the full knowledge of his wife,
Kim (
Juliet Stevenson). As the years passed, teenage
Blake's (
Matthew Beard) discomfort around his father hardened into resentment -- particularly when the adolescent boy expressed interest in a girl,
Rachel (
Carey Mulligan), who clearly preferred his father; compounding the situation,
Blake then had to suffer through
Arthur's decision to publicly humiliate his son in front of everyone. The central dynamic has changed for the two, however, by the late '80s, when
Blake -- now married to
Kathy (
Gina McKee) and freshly established as a successful novelist and poet -- learns that
Arthur has contracted terminal cancer. Now, the junior Morrison takes a headfirst plunge into the memories and recollections of his youth -- and grapples with the dynamic of his relationship with
Arthur for the first time in his life as he comes face to face with the need to provide loving care for the old man.
~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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