Rafe Spall impresses as a widower in this tear-stained adaptation of St John Greene’s memoir
Only a Scrooge would snub Mum’s List, a heart-wringing, grief-stricken British weepy, adapted from the bestselling memoir by St John Greene. Rafe Spall does sterling work as a West Country widower, left to pick up the pieces. Emilia Fox is his late wife, Kate, who lives on as a guardian angel in the form of her texts and Post-it notes. Director Niall Johnson takes her scattered life lessons and makes them into a collage or possibly a soufflé. It’s warm to the touch, slightly soft in the middle.
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Only a Scrooge would snub Mum’s List, a heart-wringing, grief-stricken British weepy, adapted from the bestselling memoir by St John Greene. Rafe Spall does sterling work as a West Country widower, left to pick up the pieces. Emilia Fox is his late wife, Kate, who lives on as a guardian angel in the form of her texts and Post-it notes. Director Niall Johnson takes her scattered life lessons and makes them into a collage or possibly a soufflé. It’s warm to the touch, slightly soft in the middle.
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- 11/27/2016
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Rafe Spall and Emilia Fox are commanding in a real-life story about a man raising his sons after losing his wife to breast cancer
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Heartfelt and utterly committed performances from Rafe Spall and Emilia Fox are the bedrock of this sweet and desperately sad British film, taken from the autobiographical first novel by Somerset paramedic St John Greene, about the loss of his wife, Kate, to breast cancer, right after their young son had himself recovered from a tumour. An unthinkably cruel blow. It is a movie with big scenes and it did get under my guard: the sheer emotional candour from Spall and Fox carries the drama, whose action turns on the fact that St John has created a list of the texts his wife sent him in her final days, each intended to remind him...
Related: Mum’s bucket list: ‘Have a great time after I’ve gone’
Heartfelt and utterly committed performances from Rafe Spall and Emilia Fox are the bedrock of this sweet and desperately sad British film, taken from the autobiographical first novel by Somerset paramedic St John Greene, about the loss of his wife, Kate, to breast cancer, right after their young son had himself recovered from a tumour. An unthinkably cruel blow. It is a movie with big scenes and it did get under my guard: the sheer emotional candour from Spall and Fox carries the drama, whose action turns on the fact that St John has created a list of the texts his wife sent him in her final days, each intended to remind him...
- 11/24/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
We present our red carpet interviews from the premiere of Mum’s List, held at the Washington Hotel in London’s Mayfair last night. The film stars Rafe Spall, Emilia Fox and Elaine Cassidy, it was directed by Niall Johnson who adapted the book by St John Greene. Mum’s List tells the true story of the life […]
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- 11/24/2016
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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