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Ordinary Love

Ordinary Love

6.775

2019

92 min

Drama

Romance

An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.

Ordinary Love

6.775

2019

92 min

Drama

Romance

An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.

Cast

Liam Neeson

Tom

Lesley Manville

Joan

David Wilmot

Peter

Amit Shah

Steve

Lalor Roddy

Smoking Man

Stella McCusker

Elderly Woman

Melanie Clark Pullen

Doctor

Desmond Edwards

Aggressive Man

Maggie Cronin

Glamorous Woman

Geraldine McAlinden

Surgeon

Vivien Monory

Anxious Woman

Fo Cullen

Saleswoman

Reviews

Peter McGinn

@narrator56

3 years ago

I will usually give anything a try that features Lesley Manville, and in this film I also like Liam Neeson, so that was a bonus. This is a good, solid film in my opinion. Not earth-shattering, but well-written with two strong leads. Both Neeson and Manville seemed like normal folks to me, believable as a couple. There are no melodramatic tantrums or gushing tears and emotion. There were flare-ups of temper, as you expect in a long-term relationship when two people feel enough love and security to occasionally say mean things to each other. When Neeson’s husband struck up a conversation with the partner of another patient his wife had spoken to, it reminded me a little of that excellent movie The Doctor, with William Hurt. The plots are wildly different, but the feel of someone spending time with a person who is going through an experience even worse than his felt believable. The supporting cast did a credible job, but this was really a two-person show. Fortunately the co-starts were up to it.