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A Long Way Down (2014) Posters — The Movie Database (TMDB)
A Long Way Down R 2014, Comedy/Drama, 1h 36m 23% Tomatometer 52 Reviews 40% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings What to know Critics Consensus Tonally jumbled and conceptually ill-advised, A Long Way. "A Long Way Down" is a film that's afraid of its subject matter: suicidal depression. One never senses any actual danger or urgency in the plight of these characters to battle their demons before they kill them, and the lack of any sense that these people might actually end their lives drains the piece of drama. Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alongwaydownfilm"I laughed and cried in equal measure" - Woman's Weekly A Long Way Down starring Pierce Brosnan, T. 10 Feb 2014.This film version of Nick Hornby's 2005 novel is a wince-inducing parade of misjudgments and false notes, writes Peter Bradshaw
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ABOUT THE FILM In this touching comedy based on the acclaimed novel by Nick Hornby, A LONG WAY DOWN centers on four strangers (Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul and Imogen Poots) who decide to end it all on New Year's Eve. However, when they meet by chance on a London rooftop, they agree to halt their plans for six weeks. But this inane, preposterous and stupefying film lacks the courage to milk the concept for the extreme satire that might have made it watchable. "A Long Way Down" is rated R (Under 17 requires. An inept trifle, A Long Way Down reduces Nick Hornby's novel of the same name to a series of smug self-help gestures. Director Pascal Chaumeil and screenwriter Jack Thorne plop us right into the middle of the inciting incident, in which a ruined talk show host, Martin (Pierce Brosnan), decides to jump off the top of a tall, snowy building on New Year's Eve, only to be thwarted by the. Mon 10 Feb 2014 09.42 EST. 15. N ick Hornby's 2005 novel about four would-be suicides has become an amiable, undemanding comedy that is unlikely, it is fair to say, to repeat the success of An.![](https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/original/togeHexT9klBaF567s3pjrQ9W52.jpg)
A Long Way Down (2014) Posters — The Movie Database (TMDB)
http://www.hollywood.com'A Long Way Down' TrailerDirector: Pascal ChaumeilStarring: Rosamund Pike, Aaron Paul, Imogen PootsFour people meet on New Year's E. A Long Way Down is a 2005 novel written by British author Nick Hornby. It is a dark comedy, playing off the themes of suicide, angst, depression and promiscuity. The story is written in the first-person narrative from the points of view of the four main characters, Martin, Maureen, Jess and JJ. Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6hSubscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUnLike us on FACEBOOK:http://goo.gl/dHs73.A Long Way Down Official Int. Nothing says comedy like "A Long Way Down's" contrived meet-cute between four strangers who've all climbed to the top of the same tall building to commit suicide on New Year's Eve.![](https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/sm/upload/31/18/7e/ko/a-long-way-down-1200-1200-675-675-crop-000000.jpg?k=1421a17fcf)