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Like Father, Like Son (PG)

Drama

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth, he must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.


The critical consensus

Like Father, Like Son is a delicate, overlong charmer that creates credible dilemmas from the situation in which the two families find themselves.

****(*)Allan Hunter, The List, 08/10/2013

Hirokazu Koreeda’s rather predictable and sentimental parable about social engineering.

***(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 14/10/2013

Another quiet delight from Koreeda.

****(*)Simon Crook, Empire Online, 14/10/2013

It is affecting and charming, but not Kore-eda's best work.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 17/10/2013

The result is a deceptively rich and rewarding drama, small of gesture, huge of heart.

****(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 20/10/2013

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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