Upon the death of his father, Jake revisits the world he walked out on. Upon returning, he finds himself confronting all he has run away from, and all that he has become. His return is the catalyst that propels two relationships, four different people, into facing where they have become stuck. Each of them is faced with having to move forward, struggling between betrayal of another or betrayal of oneself.
Even Paul Bettany and Olivia Williams in support can’t detract from a corny script full of dangling plot threads that resolves itself with a shrug of an ending.
By no means totally broken, but it doesn't quite deliver the way it could.
Painfully dull.
A character driven drama that frankly needs two alternatives in the driving seat. Bettany shines, though.
There's the germ of a Mike Leighish masterpiece in this hand-wringing romance made in 2008 – an ominously long time on the shelf.
Some good acting enlivens this modest and not altogether believable drama of thwarted passion in North London's Finsbury Park.
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