Gerri's

As "Another Year" inexorably progresses, the limits of Tom and Gerri's friendship begin to strain.

Somewhere between settled and unsettling Ann Hornaday 2011

Friends and relations drift in and out of Tom and Gerri's modestly prosperous home: their 30-year-old son Joe (Oliver Maltman), the couple's longtime friend Ken (Peter Wight), Tom's slightly estranged brother Ronnie (David Bradley).

Somewhere between settled and unsettling Ann Hornaday 2011

As Leigh did with 2008's "Happy-Go-Lucky," he and cinematographer Dick Pope have chosen a lush palette and expansive widescreen canvas to draw the audience into Tom and Gerri's lambent world, made all the more seductive by Gary Yershon's lyrical chamber score.

Somewhere between settled and unsettling Ann Hornaday 2011

Gerri's office friend Mary Lesley Manville, a romantic, self-deluding fantasist living alone after a string of failed relationships, is constantly dropping in.

Another Year – review Philip French 2010

Despite or perhaps because of their contentment, Tom and Gerri's home has become a magnet for lost and damaged souls.

Another Year ? review Peter Bradshaw 2010

She's desperately clingy, and so lonely that she bursts into Tom and Gerri's hallowed home without warning in search of crumbs of affection.

Another Year, same old witch-hunt David Cox 2010

But above all there's Leslie Manville -- a Leigh regular -- who plays a co-worker of Gerri's and slowly becomes the heart of the film.

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We seem to be supposed to admire and even envy Tom and Gerri's cosy contentment, but in fact their allotment-centred lives seem mind-numbingly boring.

Another Year, same old witch-hunt David Cox 2010

Mary's fate may be chaos, misery and hopelessness, but compared to Tom and Gerri's companionable wait for death it almost looks attractive.

Another Year, same old witch-hunt David Cox 2010

Fair enough, Gerri's had some wit and elicited a respectable groan rather than the frosty, bemused silence that was met with Mr Gwynne's Crap Twitter Chat.

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