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Another Year

  • 20102010
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h 9m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, and Ruth Sheen in Another Year (2010)
A look at four seasons in the lives of a happily married couple (Broadbent and Sheen), and their relationships with their family and friends -- who are all quite miserable.
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A look at four seasons in the lives of a happily married couple and their relationships with their family and friends.A look at four seasons in the lives of a happily married couple and their relationships with their family and friends.A look at four seasons in the lives of a happily married couple and their relationships with their family and friends.
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
30K
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    • Mike Leigh
    • Mike Leigh
  • Stars
    • Jim Broadbent
    • Ruth Sheen
    • Lesley Manville
    • Mike Leigh
    • Mike Leigh
  • Stars
    • Jim Broadbent
    • Ruth Sheen
    • Lesley Manville
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 162User reviews
    • 254Critic reviews
    • 80Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar

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    Lesley Manville in Another Year (2010)
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    Lesley Manville and Ruth Sheen in Another Year (2010)
    Ruth Sheen in Another Year (2010)
    Jim Broadbent in Another Year (2010)
    Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, and Oliver Maltman in Another Year (2010)
    Ruth Sheen, Karina Fernandez, and Oliver Maltman in Another Year (2010)
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    Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen in Another Year (2010)
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    Jim Broadbent
    Jim Broadbent
    • Tom
    Ruth Sheen
    Ruth Sheen
    • Gerri
    Lesley Manville
    Lesley Manville
    • Mary
    Oliver Maltman
    Oliver Maltman
    • Joe
    Peter Wight
    Peter Wight
    • Ken
    David Bradley
    David Bradley
    • Ronnie
    Martin Savage
    Martin Savage
    • Carl
    Karina Fernandez
    Karina Fernandez
    • Katie
    Michele Austin
    Michele Austin
    • Tanya
    Phil Davis
    Phil Davis
    • Jack
    Imelda Staunton
    Imelda Staunton
    • Janet
    Stuart McQuarrie
    Stuart McQuarrie
    • Tom's Colleague
    Eileen Davies
    Eileen Davies
    • Mourner
    Mary Jo Randle
    Mary Jo Randle
    • Mourner
    Ben Roberts
    • Mourner
    David Hobbs
    • Vicar
    Badi Uzzaman
    Badi Uzzaman
    • Mr. Gupta
    Meneka Das
    Meneka Das
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      • Mike Leigh
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    • Trivia
      To simulate the four seasons of a year, cinematographer Dick Pope used four different film stocks, and much attention was paid to details in the props so that the passage of time would appear believable.
    • Goofs
      One of Mary's outlays on her troublesome car was for a new carburettor, but the vehicle in the film had fuel injection.
    • Quotes

      Mary: I'm very much a glass-half-full kind of girl. But it's tricky, because... I meet these older men who want somebody younger, and that's great, because I fit the bill. But... when they find out that... you know, I'm not as young as they thought, they don't want to know. My looks work against me.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Cannes Film Festival 2010 (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      All Shook Up
      Written by Elvis Presley & Otis Blackwell

      Used by kind permission of Carlin Music Corp & EMI Publishing

    User reviews162

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    8/10
    Mike Leigh turns the trivial into the truly tragic
    Mike Leigh's latest film Another Year follows the story of a happily married couple approaching their retirement years. Their warm relationship offers them security as the the film progresses. Their friends and family, by contrast, all struggle to some extent with unhappiness, and a sense that their best years may be behind them.

    The film is a story of ageing; the small events that can make life either comforting or unbearable; and the refuge that companionship can offer.

    Rut Sheen's role as Gerri is superb. Her open, welcoming face invites her friend and colleague Mary (played by Lesley Manville) to open up to her about her drunken fears of where her life is leading. Jim Broadbent's Tom is charming and self-effacing, confident in his own happiness yet nonplussed at the failure of his friend Ken – Peter Wight – to come to terms with growing old.

    The film dwells on the small, predominantly non-verbal signals that reveal emotional and social insecurity. Leigh's direction reminds us that the sharpest insights into character lie in moments where we think we at our most concealed. Faces betray what we wish were kept private – at moments where verbal communication fails, physical expression lights up hidden fears, passions, failings and desires.

    Leigh treats all his characters with a certain dignity – whilst there are moments where we are encouraged to laugh at their social inadequacies, for the most part we suffer along with them, knowing that their experiences are all too near reality to take lightly. We encourage Tom and Gerri to keep supporting their despairing friends, yet knowing at the same time that their married happiness can only serve to mock their friends' lonely lives further. The four strictly partitioned seasons of the film point towards a growing anxiety that it may in fact be too late for these lost characters. The cyclical nature of the structure suggests that there is no real remedy for those left unloved and lonely at the film's conclusion.

    From the opening scene, where a woman silently struggles to recollect the happiest moment in her life, to the point when the dialogue slowly fades away to leave Mary isolated and forlorn, we cannot help but be both enchanted and dismayed by the emotional honesty of Mike Leigh's characters. This is what sets out the director as a truly gifted artist – his ability to heighten the routine into the dramatic; and to make the trivial, truly tragic.
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    • Release date
      • February 4, 2011 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
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      • English
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      • Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Thin Man Films
      • Film4
      • Focus Features
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    • 2 hours 9 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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