Sometimes Always Never

  • Rated PG 13
  • 1hr 31m
  •  (4)
  • 67

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Carl Hunter

Producer:

Kirsty Bell, Roy Boulter, Alastair Burlingham

Writer:

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Runtime:

1hr 31m

Synopsis

Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son Peter and solve the mystery of an online player who he thinks could be Michael, so he can finally move on and reunite his family.

Cast

  • Bill Nighy
  • Sam Riley
  • Alice Lowe
  • Jenny Agutter
  • Tim McInnerny
  • John Westley
  • Oliver Sindcup
  • Louis Healy
  • Ella-Grace Gregoire
  • Alan Williams

Did You Know?

Trivia

  • The film is based on a short story called Triple Word Score, written by the script writer Frank Cottrrel Boyce.
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Goofs

  • When characters play Scrabble online, the game board shown on the desktop computer screen does not have the premium squares in the standard configuration.
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Quotes

    • Alan: I've been playing you for weeks, haven't I?
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75
Jun 11, 2020

Director Carl Hunter infuses Sometimes Always Never with creative visual touches, whether he’s using graphics to illustrate certain Scrabble words, or shooting a poignant scene through a patterned glass door, so we feel the emotions of the character in question just through the movement of his silhouette.

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Metacritic review by Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Chicago Sun-Times
70
Oct 4, 2019

Strong casting keeps the film thriving through its many winding subplots.

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Metacritic review by Carlos Aguilar
Carlos Aguilar
TheWrap
60
Oct 3, 2019

Whimsical and wistful, if occasionally a little too self-consciously kooky, British comedy-drama Sometimes Always Never constructs a pleasant portrait of a mildly unhappy family living in the English northwest.

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Metacritic review by Leslie Felperin
Leslie Felperin
The Hollywood Reporter
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