Sometimes Always Never – ABC Film Challenge – Mystery – S – Sometimes Always Never – Movie Review
Director: Carl Hunter
Writer: Frank Cottrell Boyce (Screenplay)
Cast
- Bill Nighy (Love Actually)
- Sam Riley (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)
- Alice Lowe (Prevenge)
- Jenny Agutter (An American Werewolf in London)
- Tim McInnerny (Severance)
Plot: A detective fantasy/family drama where a love of words helps a father reconnect with a missing son.
Runtime: 1 Hour 31 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Sometimes Always Never starts when Alan (Nighy) looks to catch up with his son Peter (Riley). The pair search for answers about their own lost family member. Alan believes his lost son has been playing online scrabble games with him. However, Peter has his own problems at home, raising his own teenage son Jack (Healy).
As the two start getting closer, Alan sees his obsession starting to take over more than anything else before. Causing bigger problems between Peter, who has grown to accept he won’t see his brother again.
Verdict on Sometimes Always Never
Sometimes Always Never is a mystery drama following an estranged father-son relationship. It follows the two trying to reconnect after years as a potential new clue to a missing family member appears. This sends them down a path of memories of uncertainty they can never return from.
The movie gets to tackle grief in a different way, showing how a father has seen his whole life spiral out of control because of an answer he might never get. It shows the hole left in somebody if a family member vanishes without any resolution. Be it from starting their own life or something way worse. On the other hand, it shows us how a brother started his own family and tries to support the father he still has. Billy Night is amazing in the leading role, bringing us a desperate yet broken figure.
Final Thoughts – Sometimes Always Never is a great vision of what grief does to someone.
