This was one of the worst films I've ever had to sit through. I can't believe this was nominated for Best Original Screenplay.Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen) are an older married couple. They are content with their lives, with their jobs, with their hobbies, and they love and support one another. In short, they are horrible. Gerri's work colleague, Mary (Lesley Manville), is aging disgracefully, incapable of making good decisions for herself and carrying a pathetically inappropriate torch for Gerri's son, Joe (Oliver Maltman), who is twenty years younger. Over the course of a year, Tom and Gerri deal with the emotional crises of everyone around them while remaining blissfully in sync with each other. Like I said, horrible.
The happy couple are never the main characters. They are the side characters with very little screen time who dispense hackneyed advice to the main character, who is struggling. Who the hell wants to see a movie where the characters start out happy and stay happy through the entire running time? There's no arc, no character progression. This might as well have been a set of still photos for all the people in it grow. Definitely avoid.
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