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The Lost King
Why this pick
Frears again pairs an ordinary woman’s tenacity with a skeptical professional world, using dry humour and humane restraint to make a real-life search quietly moving.
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MOVIE2013 1h 38m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Like Philomena, it balances an intimate family wound with wry observational humour, allowing love, cultural tensions and withheld truths to emerge without melodrama.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
London-based journalist Martin Sixsmith has lost his job as a government adviser. He is approached at a party by the daughter of Philomena Lee. She suggests that he write a story about her mother, who was forced to give up her toddler son Anthony nearly fifty years ago. Though Sixsmith is initially reluctant in writing a human interest story, he meets Philomena and decides to investigate her case.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Sophie Kennedy Clark
Young Philomena
Barbara Jefford
Sister Hildegarde
Peter Hermann
Pete Olsson
Sean Mahon
Michael
Anna Maxwell Martin
Jane
Wunmi Mosaku
Young Nun
Charlie Murphy
Kathleen
Kate Fleetwood
Young Sister Hildegarde