Kate Fahy, Leo Bill, Neil Conrich, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Sarah Ball
Aristocratic, impoverished and reclusive, with a truly historical lineage, Lord and Lady Brocklebank live in the magnificent but decrepit Longleigh House with their mentally challenged son, James. Jam...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 25, 2008
Stats: 93 reviews
Good story, but I did find it a little hard feeling sympathetic to a couple who don't know better than to let their deranged (not just mentally challenged as many reviews state) son be alone without a keeper for even a second. Before anything happens there are definitely signs h...( read more)
An odd British film, that I had heard nothing but very high praise for. It just ended, and I cannot understand what anyone saw in this movie. All the characters, even the father and mother (the two we are suppose to sympathize with) are hardened and mean to no need. The movie is ...( read more)
Sheer Freudian psycho-terror. Excellent screenplay. It would be 5/5 only if the director was able to ugrade Freudian psycho-terror into Freudian psycho-horror. Oedipus complex at very high range.
A slow film built around very unique characters. Leo Bill was incredible as James and really held the film together, preventing it from becoming boring in slower parts. The intertwining of the Fathers and sons stories brought mystery into the erratic plot and served to highlight ...( read more)
a mentally chalenged son, feels he can look after his ill mother, butr eliant on many medicatians, and predictably it all goes wrong, looks good, a setting at a crumbling english mansion, with some cool direction throughout,
This was a different sort of movie, dragged at times. I did like the editing and music they did when he went up and down the stairs. Touching the pills in his mother's vomit was gross.
Weird movie, but it has some charm... highly disturbed but not "horror"... i cant put a label to it, and thats really frustrating... i guess that would be the closer label to this movie "Frustrating genre"...
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