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Will

2011 · 102 min

A gentle, heartfelt journey that mixes grief with football passion, offering warm moments and a few tearful ones without much grit.

Directed by
Ellen Perry
Genres
Drama, Family
Tagline
Always Follow Your Dream
Overview
Brennan is Liverpool's number one fan, able to recite facts ad infinitum about the club and at a public school in the south of England since his father Gareth is emotionally unable to care for him following the death of Will's mother. Gareth appears one day out of the blue with tickets for Liverpool's trip to the 2005 Champions League Final in Istanbul.

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Directed by
Ellen Perry
Genres
Drama, Family
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • family
  • coming-of-age
  • obsession
  • healing
Places
  • school
  • road trip
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror0
Humour3
Realism7
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity3
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama, family
Directed by
Ellen Perry
Written by
Ellen Perry, Zack Anderson
Starring
Damian Lewis, Bob Hoskins, Rebekah Staton, Perry Eggleton, Kieran Wallbanks, Malcolm Storry, Harvey Walsh, Alice Krige
Cinematography
Oliver Stapleton
Runtime
102 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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