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Original title: Sorry We Missed You
Year: 2019
Running time: 101 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Ken Loach
Screenwriter: Paul Laverty
Music: George Fenton
Cinematography: Robbie Ryan
Cast: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor, Nikki Marshall, Harriet Ghost, Linda E Greenwood, Alfie Dobson, Mark Birch, Ross Brewster, Julian Ions, Charlie Richmond, Brad Hopper, Mark Burns, Stephen Clegg, Norman Sansom, Jack BerrySee 4 More
Producer: Co-production United Kingdom-France-Belgium;
Sixteen Films, BBC Films, BFI Film Fund, Les Films du Fleuve, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch. Distributor: Front Row Filmed Entertainment
Genre: Drama | Family Relationships. Social Drama. Job/Employment
Synopsis: Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It’s hard work, and his wife’s job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.

Rankings Position

#147 Best British Movies

Awards: 2019: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Best British Film

2019: Cannes Film Festival: Official Selection

2019: San Sebastián Film Festival: Audience Award - Best European Film

2019: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): Nom. Best Screenplay & Actor (Hitchen)

2020: Gaudí Awards: Best European Film

2020: David di Donatello Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film

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Critics' reviews

"[An] intimate and powerful drama about what’s going on in people’s everyday lives — not just in England, but all over the world.

Owen Gleiberman: Variety
"A sustained emotional crescendo of quiet devastation (...) A drama of such searing human empathy and quotidian heartbreak that its powerful climactic scenes actually impede your breathing."

David Rooney: The Hollywood Reporter
"[It] takes Loach’s usual concerns and paints them in broad, thick strokes (...) In other words, it is not a subtle film, and its bluntness is occasionally potent but just as often wearying."

Steve Pond: The Wrap
"[It] doesn’t break new ground for the filmmaker, but it radiates a timeliness that suggests an old-fashioned Ken Loach lament matters more than ever."

Eric Kohn: IndieWire
"Loach delivers one of his best films"

Lee Marshall: Screendaily
"It’s fierce, open and angry, unironised and unadorned (...) It depicts the human cost of an economic development that we are encouraged to accept as a fact of life.(...) (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian
"[It delivers] the righteous moral punch that we expect of Loach, but with little to none of the finger-wagging dialogue (...) that can make his characters seem less like human beings (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

Robbie Collin: Telegraph
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56 My Top 10 Movies from 2019 (58)

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