| When Did You Last See Your Father? | 
 enlarge | Actor: Colin Firth
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 6716
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 92
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: COLD26162D
UPC: 043396261624
EAN: 0043396261624
ASIN: B0015HOKKS
Theatrical Release Date: June 5, 2008
Release Date: November 4, 2008
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While visiting his dying father a 40 year old writers memories of the past - both good & bad - help him to realize his immortal invincible & infallible father is after all only human. An adaptation of blake morrisons bestselling memoir Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/04/2008 Starring: Jim Broadbent Juliet Stevenson Run time: 92 minutes Rating: Pg13
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An outstanding cast gives emotional richness to the father/son memoir When Did You Last See Your Father?. Writer Blake Morrison (Colin Firth), faced with the impending death of his father Arthur (Jim Broadbent, Iris, Topsy-Turvy), reflects back on how the clash of personalities has led them to near alienation. Blake can't forgive his father for small embarrassments and large betrayals--but he also can't let go of the need to understand his father's combination of broad but generous humor and petty egotism. Everyone else in Arthur's life seemed to love him; why can't Blake? The story of When Did You Last See Your Father? is familiar stuff (how often do we need to learn that boisterous fathers and sensitive sons can't communicate?), but Firth, Broadbent, and Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply), as Blake's mother, fill in the broad outlines with warmth and nuance. Particular credit goes to newcomer Matthew Beard as Blake's teenage self; Beard vividly captures the vulnerability, yearning, and self-absorption of adolescence. --Bret Fetzer
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I Never Sang for My Father (redux) December 17, 2008
Colin Furth and Jim Broadbent are wonderful actors. This movie is painful as relations between child and parents frequently are. Question is whether the good times outweigh the bad. Blake's father was abusive. Not physically but verbally and that can be almost as bad. I think he was more forgiving of his father at the end than I would have been.
While watching this film I was reminded of a film from the seventies with Gene Hackman and Melvyn Douglas which was based on a stage play of the same name, "I Never Sang for My Father," about a son coming to care for his miserable, abusive elderly father whose wife had just died. Another heartbreaking film about sons and fathers and the responsibilities of children to their sometimes abusive parents.
Both pictures leave food for thought.
 and when did you last see your father? December 17, 2008
Excellent drama. All three men actors should shear a prize for the acting.
MY NAME IS NOT EDUARDO BUT SUSANA ROTTENBERG
Sometimes it is too hard or too late to tell them we love them December 16, 2008
What a wonderful movie! Seeing it, many of us will remember how we just hated our fathers for no good reasons, to find out that we miss them so much after they passed away. The performance of Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent is so genuine, that one will easiliy forget that they are just actors rendering to screen Blake Morrison's contradicting feelings about his father.
 Tear Jerker December 10, 2008
When Did You Last See Your Father, tear jerker supreme. The movie plods along very slowly. So slowly that you actually can go off, make an onion and sugar sandwich, come back and not miss anything. It's a very predictable film, you know the father played by Jim Broadbent is going to die. The flashbacks are interspersed just about where you would expect.
It's all very neat and tidy. But there's kind of a rub with the film. Somehow we hear that Blake, played by Colin Firth, doesn't like his father. Actually hadn't spoken to him in a very long time. And we see these loving, beautiful flashbacks with his father being a very good father - spending time with his son. So I definately didn't buy this dislike. Just couldn't put myself in those shoes of distance.
Was it the supposed or imagined affair his father had that made Blake hate his father. In the end, we don't really ever know. Blake never gets confirmation that his father really had an affair. We also have to imagine, did Blake really sleep with his first love near the end of the film? So father and son, not so different.
I give the film 3 stars because, well I fell for the ending. It actually ressurected a slow movie. There's a few twists at the end and the real question Blake asks himself, when did you last see your father, is answered rather beautifully.
The DVD has 8 minutes of deleted scenes. And they are deleted for a good reason. The last deleted scene is particularly bad.
The performances by Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent are wonderful - they also bring the rating up. The filming is gorgeous. The landscapes never looked more beautiful. The sound was just passable, nothing good or really bad about it (and that is a bit of a problem). And I loved the cars in this film - the opening sequence at the race track in the 50's, that silver convertible, and the supporting cast of cars.
If you are ready for a good cry, rent this film. And that sandwich reference is in the deleted scenes.
Powerful and Personal December 2, 2008
I see that a reviewer believed that Colin Firth was trying to be Hugh Grant. I can almost detect why they would feel that way. This is a complex film with multiple time frames, and sometimes it seems that Firth is grasping to get just the right emotion, whereas Jim Broadbent, who plays his not so faithful dad, pulls it off effortlessly. The best supporting actor, however, goes to Matthew Beard who plays Firth's character as a teen. Look for him in the future.
As for the film, it is one of those movies that will touch you if you had a father that you always wanted to talk to but never had the opportunity, for whatever reason. Tear jerker for some, blank stares from others, depending on who you are. It's just one of those movies.
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