Someone Else

Someone Else (2006)

  • 50% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 39% of users liked it
    (269 ratings)

Commercial filmmaker Col Spector makes the leap to narrative features with this romantic comedy headlined by laid-back Green Wing star Stephen Mangan. Portrait photographer David (Mangan) and his longtime girlfriend Lisa (Susan Lynch) are all set to celebrate their third year together with a… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 16 min.
Directed By
Col Spector
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Aug 20, 2006 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Martin Hoyle, Financial Times

    Too shapeless and unplotted; and Mangan's not-too-ruffled rueful affability hails more from sitcom land.

  • Steve Watson, Film4

    A muzak rendition of Take That's 'Back For Good' plays over the montage that ends the film. It seems a fittingly empty conclusion to a story that never really engages with its audience.

  • Laura Bushell, BBC

    Someone Else is the top end of indie filmmaking, with a polished script and even shinier cinematography from Trevor Forrest, but it's low-key enough not to verge onto Richard Curtis territory.

  • David Jenkins, Total Film

    Performances and script are both first-rate, but what really rivets is how scarily /familiar/ it all feels, from the listless rebound romances to the forced insularity of post-breakup bachelorhood. Superb stuff.

  • Tim Evans, Sky Movies

    Debut writer-director Col Spector draws out richly detailed performances, particularly from Mangan, and the script is bursting with all-too-familiar break-up clichés that can only have been drawn from bitter experience.

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