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A council case worker looks for the relatives of those found dead and alone.
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Contemporary, grave, contemplative and earnest.
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- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jan 20257/10
Eddie Marsan is on good form in this sensitive drama about council worker "May". He is tasked with dealing with the affairs of those people who die without a family. He's a meticulous chap, fastidious even, and he takes great care to investigate as thoroughly as he can trying to find someone to take possession of their heirlooms and to attend the rudimentary cremation that the local borough provides. He is midway through the case of "Billy Stoke" when he is informed that he is to be made redundant. Instead of just packing up, though, he asks for some extra time to try and piece together the jigsaw puzzle left by this man - and that sees him travel to meet "Kelly" (Joanne Froggatt) - his long estranged daughter. As with so many of the stories contained here, we hear a tale of neglect and abuse followed by a long period of non-contact, and Marsan plays his part delicately as he allows his character to provide a poignant conduit for relatives to think on their best and final course of action at a time when maybe grudges are best forgotten. There's an honesty to this because they aren't always - there are no rose-tinted windows here, especially at the end (which I have to say, the iron
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Cast
- Eddie MarsanJohn May
- Joanne FroggattKelly Stoke
- Karen DruryMary
- Andrew BuchanMr Pratchett
- Neil D'SouzaShakthi
- Tim PotterHomeless Man
- Michael ElkinCaretaker
- Paul AndersonHomeless Man
- Bronson WebbMorgue Attendant
- Lee Nicholas HarrisPolice Chief Superintendant
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- Uberto PasoliniDirector
- Uberto PasoliniWriter
- Stefano FaliveneDirector of Photography
- Rachel PortmanOriginal Music Composer
- Gavin BuckleyEditor
- Tracy GrangerEditor
- Christopher SimonProducer
- Uberto PasoliniProducer
- Felix VossenProducer
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