Anand Tucker’s adaptation of a memoir by British writer and poet Blake Morrison, probing his uncomfortable relationship with his blustering, bluffing, bulldozing dad, reviewed in flashback from the cancer-racked end. You can recognize some universal truths, but it’s a distant recognition. The particulars do not strongly pull you in — in the manner, say, of I Never Sang for My Father. Jim Broadbent and Colin Firth are fine as father and son, although the latter character goes through two child actors as well, the second (older) one physically further from Firth than the first. The family maid on whom the boy had his first crush, meantime, remains the same actress, Elaine Cassidy, in his teen years as in his adult. With Juliet Stevenson, Gina McKee, Sarah Lancashire. (2007) — Duncan Shepherd
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