The star leads a strong cast, including George Ferrier, in writer-director Matthew J. Saville's pedestrian feature debut, in which crabbiness meets angst.
) against her angsty, self-destructive, 17-year-old grandson, Sam , feels familiar and predictable. This wouldn’t automatically be a problem if the pair’s journey grew in deeper, more involving and plausible ways. But Saville too often skims the surfaces of his characters, substituting traumatic concepts and plot devices for narrative logic and truly authentic, compelling emotion.
That Ruth would have chosen to travel halfway around the globe from England to recuperate from a badly broken leg with her estranged, widowed son, Robert , and the grandson she’s never met, stretches credibility even after we learn what’s behind her motivation.In addition, the extent of the damage to Ruth and Robert’s relationship goes underexplained beyond that she sent him away to boarding school as a boy and would never reveal who his real father was.
Saville does a better job fleshing out the case of Sam, who’s so undone by his beloved mother’s death that he’s a whirling dervish of conflicting emotions and unbridled actions, some of which get him thrown out of boarding school. Unfortunately, that event plays like another device as does an abortive attempt to hang himself on his mum’s birthday. Still, the handsome Ferrier, with his open, expressive face and strong delivery, proves a worthy sparring partner against the formidable Rampling.
It leads Ruth, who’s apparently flush with dough, to throw a beer bash for Sam and his circle of guy friends in return for them cleaning up the home’s neglected garden . Ruth becomes “cool grandma” for a day, even proves her skills with a rifle, and it strengthens her connection with Sam. But the sequence goes on too long and diffuses its point when word spreads among the local kids and an all-night rager ensues.
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