Ethel & Ernest

Name: Ethel & Ernest
Genre: Drama, History, Animation
Released: December 15, 2017
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Alex Jordan, Brenda Blethyn, Harry Collett, Jim Broadbent, June Brown

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Dada Films | Release Date: December 15, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Alex Jordan, Brenda Blethyn, Harry Collett, Jim Broadbent, June Brown, Luke Treadaway, Pam Ferris, Peter Wight, Roger Allam, Simon Day, Virginia McKenna

Summary: Based on the award-winning book by acclaimed British author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, this hand-drawn, animated film tells the true story of Raymond’s own parents – Ethel and Ernest - two ordinary Londoners living through a period of extraordinary events and immense social change.

Director: Roger Mainwood

Genre(s): Drama, History, Animation

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Michael Rechtshaffen

Dec 14, 2017

While time inevitably marches on, director Roger Mainwood has a splendid constant at his disposal in the pitch-perfect voice performances of Blethyn and Broadbent, who inhabit their hand-drawn characters with a vivid, fully-dimensional authenticity. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

Dec 14, 2017

It’s commonly thought that artists seldom make stories about happy, stable marriages because where’s the drama in that? Ethel & Ernest, a deeply affecting feature-length animated film, disproves that assumption by unfurling an emotionally rich story about the lifelong marital love affair between two kindly, modest people living in an inconspicuous corner of suburban England. Read full review

The Telegraph Tim Robey

Dec 14, 2017

The backdrop to this very English marriage – soot and grit and survival, and that basenote of touching bafflement – means all the tears are earned. Read full review

John Hartl

Dec 14, 2017

Suggesting a matchup between Archie Bunker and Gracie Allen, Ethel & Ernest is a sweet British memoir/cartoon about an ordinary couple who survive the Blitz along with their growing son. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Dec 14, 2017

It’s an engaging film, but it leaves you with a feeling that there might be a deeper, darker, more specific story yet to be told. Read full review

Kate Stables

Dec 14, 2017

The storytelling can feel a bit plodding, but Jim Broadbent’s exuberant Ernest and Brenda Blethyn’s timid, upwardly mobile Ethel give the marriage a touching intimacy and warmth. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Dec 21, 2017

Mainwood’s fidelity to Briggs’ illustrative aesthetic is welcome, as it maintains a homey, appropriately somewhat retro air redolent of pencil sketches and pastels. Hewing to the book’s sparse text is a little less ideal. Read full review

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Am-I-A-Martian

Mar 22, 2021

This movie will feel short and fun. It's a beatiful tribute to ordinary people. Loved the art style and some of the dialogue.

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