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Anything that can make me tear up gets 5 stars. Why is Carey Mulligan so good at acting? We don’t deserve this woman. Life is so temporary yet we still find ways to take things for granted. The human condition is so exhaustive, but now I’m just rambling. Moral of the this review is tell someone you love them if you really do love them 🥂 Carey Mulligan Ranked
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“You waited till 3:15 on the last day of school.” “Right, yeah.. I never said I had good timing.” This movie was so sad and the cast all did their best. The story was emotional and heartbreaking. I really didn’t expect Aaron’s character to die so quickly..💔 I just found that the fact that Rose, having to deal with losing her boyfriend so tragically, then being stuck with a child, his child, as a constant reminder really sad. I think that part was well written. To be honest, I felt bad for a lot of the characters. Bennet’s death all affected them differently and the way they handled his death was all different too. His mother was extremely torn up…
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Tomei um olé da diretora Shana Feste. Como entender o sofrimento, compartilhar a dor e se emocionar com algo que vc não viveu ou sentiu? Normalmente, eles nos fazem apaixonar pelo personagem para depois sentirmos a sua perda. Shana escolheu outro caminho, com uma premissa arriscada de mostrar primeiro a dor e o sofrimento de uma família, para depois, por meio de relatos dos pais e irmãos conhecermos mais de Bennett. A diretora explica tudo isso na busca de Rose em conhecer mais de Bennett, seu namorado de 01 dia e pai da sua filha, mas que só conhece realmente na cena final do carro com toda família contando mais sobre ele. Carey Mulligan mostra todo seu potencial, num papel que não exige demais como em “Promising Young Woman” e Pierce Brosnan só atua por ser um dos produtores executivos, não era para ele.
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Grace wakes up crying remembering her son Bennett, who just died in an accident, Allen spends his night sleepless while Bennett’s brother Jack is filled with his own guilt that he didn’t get to say him goodbye as he was high that night. But in all this Rose comes knocking in with a news that she is pregnant with Bennett’s baby. Directed by Shana Feste, The Greatest provides a story that feels like it needed a little time of its own to get what it wanted. It shows how everyone is dealing with their grief and at moments it is shown excellently. The scene between Grace and Allen in the hospital where they both are arguing about the baby and…
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i only watched this cause of aaron taylor johnson so imagine my surprise when his character dies in the literal first 3 minutes
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today is Mulligan Monday. and it sure as hell wasn’t the best choice to watch The Greatest. to begin with, Carey Mulligan seems to have inhaled helium while doing her spotless American accent. was it because she’s young? acting twee? personifying the Girl-Next-Door archetype? controlling her English accent from coming out like a fart? no one knows. still, it doesn’t remove the fact that her performance is good. with a female character whose sole purpose is to grieve her dead almost-boyfriend, she does what she could to put some volume on her role (plus, she’s a cutie-pie). although I lightly applaud the effort, the little background her character has is too underdeveloped. it’s only there so she can eventually turn-up…
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Why tf did he start choking Zoë Kravitz like that out of nowhere, that was so out of pocket lmaoooo.
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Stopping in the middle of a narrow road is the dumbest thing you can to but I get why he did it
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A textbook example of melodrama. Its soppiness is certainly played well with the actors like a ball of putty, making for some decently emotional scenes. But then you get the awkward scene of Brosnan’s “floodgates” opening, and you sink back into your seat. I liked how genuine the love felt between Rose and Bennett, even though they spent a short amount of time together. Rose is the sun in all of this, yet Bennett’s family is too grief-stricken to really…
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Pensé que sería una película de terror y siempre no xdxdxd, es una película que trata el duelo de perder a un ser querido. Me gustó siento que es una buena historia pero también sentí que es una película muy americana 🦅🦅🇺🇸 Aún que no por eso es una mala película, el papá fue sin duda mi personaje favorito por que sabía lo que debía hacer aún que no le gustaba hablar del tema quizá por miedo a sentir que…
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grief will always be weird. im bawling i cant sleep so i say to myself y not watch this right bruh. im crying now. funny thing, Freud theory great example of this one xD. I just love how Bennet is mastermind all this time. This movie made me remind myself dont stop at the middle of the road t—t
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RRicky Albuquerque 6 月 6, 2026
Visceral, cru e honesto. Se gostou desse recomendo After The Wedding de 2006. A temática e a mensagem são similares.
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back when they pulled words out of a hat and turned it into a film….
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She didn’t deserve that, but oh well, she’s very beautiful, and I didn’t like her mother-in-law. 🤬
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¡Cómo me encantan los personajes tristes y los hombres que lloran! 11/20 ver a mis dos chicos en la peli llorar y desahogarse. Me satisface ver el desarrollo que alcanzan los personajes en la película y ver cómo captaron las etapas de un duelo, de manera tan bella y dolorosa.🫂
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Amazing cast. I’ve never heard of this movie before which is shocking because its a good one. Bittersweet but wholesome story about family. This was a one time watch for me.
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no, i technically didn’t watch this (i skipped every scene he wasn’t in) BUT all i have to add is that the title of the movie is technically referring to his dih
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Y’all made it seem like he was ghost or something like y’all don’t understand I specifically watched this for Aaron Taylor Johnson. Anyways Zoe Kravitz what are you doing hereee?!!
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I worked up the courage all year to talk to you. So you waited until 3:15 on the last day of school to talk to me? Great performances from everyone. Very sad boi hours here
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o luto de uma mãe narcisista. que essa nora tenha paciência
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damn, they lured me in with Aaron and killed him in the first three minutes of the movie…
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Standard run-of-the-mill tearjerker, but with an inexplicable series of “Wait…THEY’RE in this, too?!” actor appearances
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A great portrayal of how grief affects multiple people differently. Such a tear jerker
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Its been 15 years since I’ve last seen this movie but never forgot those scenes where his mother wakes up every morning stares at her husband, then comes the moment of realization and starts crying hysterically.
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Part of The Complete “500 Greatest Movies Of All Time” Project [REDUX] THE CATALYST First off, I’d like to complain publicly that it is downright impossible to get a hold of this movie legally. As of today, I do not have any VPN privileges installed on my computer, so I cannot confirm that every country in the world has the exact same issue, but this thing wasn’t available in ANY streaming service this side of the world, nor was it…
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فيلم رقيق حسسني بمشاعر حلوة ومتوقعتش انه هيبقي ممتع كده من الجميل انك تتفرج على قصة هادية زى دى
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„So there’s this website where you can take two people’s picture and see what their unborn kid looks like and I took you and Bennetts yearbook picture…” and i just laughed.
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Infuriating and heartbreaking. But thank you now I know how If He Had Been With Me truly ended. The acting was absolutely phenomenal everyone in this film made me cry in a completely different way and for completely different reasons.
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this week on my hyperfixation for Aaron Taylor-Johnson: The Greatest First of all, what a cast to think about it! Carey Mulligan I wish I was you lol. Was it worth it to watch a 1,5 hour movie only for Aaron to be in it for like 10 min? No, but anyway And what in the Michael Shannon/Aaron Johnson universe?! #24 of Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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The Greatest had a chance to be a good movie but it kept shooting from outer space and missing. The performances of these actors were outweighed by subpar writing. Many plot points were built up just to be abandoned. The entire Brewer family completely change their behavior towards Rose at the end without showing development throughout the movie. All of the sudden when Grace talks to Jordan Walker she doesn’t hate Rose. All of the sudden Pierce Brosnan has a heart attack and can talk about Bennett again. Nothing felt built, just rushed- especially towards the end. Also what the hell happened to Zoë Kravitz character???
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honestly a very sweet movie. it tackles the many different forms that grief takes shape and it exemplifies how hard it is to appreciate something so sweet but so short lived while trying not to become jaded by the trauma of its ending. also susan sarandons bouts of crying when she wakes up and remembers the horror was too real (been there😝).
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classic trope where the s/o dies and the girl always mourns – hated the mum at first
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Nunca tinha ouvido falar antes nesta diretora Shana Feste, que, pelas fotos, é uma loira bonita e jovem e que já fez outro filme (Love Don´t Let Me Down, com Gwyneth Paltrow), embora esta sua estreia tenha ido muito mal de bilheteria (para um orçamento de US 6 milhões, nem chegou a inteirar um milhão de renda). Também foi exibido em Sundance, mas não teve maior repercussão. Na verdade, o filme provoca aqueles impasses aborrecidos. É muito bem interpretado por…
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Watching this at work, while actually working, with no sound on and the tv maybe ten meters away, and only occasionally reading the closed captions, is perhaps not the greatest way to experience The Greatest? But what I saw was enough to note this is not the greatest of anything. A major failure on all accounts, a call-back to 90s melodramas starring… Susan Sarandon. She was also in a 2002 movie called Moonlight Mile, with Jake Gyllenhaal in a part…
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Il lui a fallu du temps à la daronne pour accepter la meuf de son fils mort
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J’aime pas les personnages..
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why was atj barely in this, i’m so upset ☹️
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Que filme incrível! Não me lembro da ultima vez em que senti tantas emoções em um filme. Esse vai estar para sempre guardado no coração!
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it has made me irrationally angry to see the two starrers that watched this for aaron because this film saw performances of a lifetime from everyone BUT him (guy in hotel for dogs deserved his career)… shana feste did not long shot for two minutes in the first five just to have people ignore her narrative like this
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The whole time it felt hard to connect it all back to the brother when we really hardly knew anything on him.
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that’s ATJ IN HIS PRIME you can’t just give him 2 mins of screen time and roll with it yeah that was heart-shattering tho
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There is something so strange about the instrumentals in this movie like the songs are good and then the instruments in the background are like a kidz bop soundtrack. Also it’s kinda crazy that they made Jenny lind like a home wrecker when I don’t think she gaf’d about pt Barnum irl from what I remember researching back in the day. Something is so strange but so amazing about this movie tho LMAO I THOUGHT I WAS REVIEWING THE GREATEST SHOWMAN MY BAD
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Aaron amor a primera vista… Llorar es poco, pero duro mas mi llanto que esta historia de amor…
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“𝐷𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝐼’𝑚 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔?” “𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜 𝑢𝑔𝑙𝑦.” I LOVE how this movie shows the way people deal with grief differently, definitely one of my favorites right now, cried a lot
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Empezando el mes de agosto con un drama que tenia pendiente desde hace un buen. Según yo, quiero terminar con la filmografía de Aaron Taylor y prácticamente no sale. Pero igual excelentes actuaciones de Carey Mulligan y Susan Sarandon. Re jovencita Zoë Kravitz en esta pelicula.
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a heartbreaking story depicting how people deals with grief differently. i cried a lot.
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This has made it onto my pantheon of “tender tales about life’s journey*” (as categorized by the streaming service) *doesn’t pass the bipoctel test – no meaningful characters of color
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Ruggigt svårt att sympatisera med morsan. Jag försöker förstå henne, och jag vill ändå tro att jag förstår ATT man kan bete sig så, men det är ändå inte okej
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Bloody hell this was emotionally a very hard Sunday watch! I had to pause three or four times and take a break. In regard to the acting, Brosnan, Sarandon, Mulligan and Simmons were all terrific. I have no notes.
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yeah maybe I cried but guys he was literally supposed to go to Berkeley to BERKELEY I can’t escape the Berkeley, not even in this movie wtf 😭
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i have never seen more wrong ways to deal with grief together all at once before
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Pierce Brosnan is not a good crier.
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MUITO MUITO BOM!! tem tantas camadaaaaaaaaaaas
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So this film is one of them where it’s going to resonate or it’s not. It’s a pretty hard going subject matter but acted well by all. Carey Mulligan is really underrated she deserves more love!
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Was Pierce Brosnan supposed to be British or American? No one told his accent
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wow i think i really need to read the descriptions before i watch movies bc i really wasn’t expecting that intro
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You can feel the mom’s pain. I feel like this film shows different perspectives on grief. Everyone deals with it differently. Such a good movie but so sad
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I liked this movie. Sometimes I prefer when movies are just simple, family drama, rather than anything extraordinary. This movie honestly felt straight out of the ’90s as opposed to 2009, which is a good thing for me, because I like the old school vibes.
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The strength of this movie rests entirely on the cast. The same script with less talented actors would have been a piece of trash. I cried.
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It was interesting but I think they tried to add to many storylines to this story. The story feels like brainstorming were they setup all different scenarios of grief and it takes me out of it. Good actors though but the script feels to thick.
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The performances are largely on the money, but the screenplay is so full of holes and cul-de-sacs that the film feels false and falls flat. The biggest conceit is that we can believe that Carey Mulligan’s character comes from a deprived background and has no one to turn to when she is so well grounded and confident. It’s really hard to believe that this script was filmed as is, I mean the party scene, wtf was that for?
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อ๋าย ดรามามาก น้ำเน่าอ้วกแตกสุดๆ แต่น้ำเน่าๆ อย่างนี้แหละชอบ จัดมาเลย 55 เปิดเรื่องมาวัยรุ่นหนุ่มสาวสองคนก็ประสบอุบัติเหตุทางรถยนต์ ฝ่ายชายเสียชีวิต (Aaron Taylor-Johnson วัยรุ่น) ฝ่ายหญิงรอด (Carey Mulligan) ครอบครัวของฝ่ายชายต้องต่อกรกับความสูญเสียอันยากทำใจได้นี้ พ่อ (Pierce Brosnan) พยายามเลี่ยงทุกอย่างที่จะไม่พูดถึงเรื่องที่เกิดขึ้น ทำเหมือนไม่เคยมีเหตุการณ์นั้นอยู่ในชีวิต แม่ (Susan Sarandon กับบทแนวถนัด) ก็หมกมุ่นอยู่กับความตายของลูกชายแบบทำใจไม่ได้ น้องชาย (Johnny Simmons) ก็ทำตัวเหมือนวัยรุ่นมีปัญหา ดูภายนอกเหมือนเขาไม่แยแสกับการตายของพี่ชาย แต่ลึกๆ แล้วมีใครสนใจเขาบ้าง เรื่องราวเริ่มเข้มข้นเมื่อแฟนสาวของลูกชายมาปรากฎตัวที่บ้าบอกว่าเธอตั้งท้องกับลูกชายผู้จากไป แล้วก็ไม่มีที่ไป มาขออยู่บ้านด้วย แล้วเรื่องดรามาทั้งหลายก็ตามมา แบบไม่กลัวคำว่าน้ำเน่า หนังสนุกดีนะ ชอบหนังน้ำเน่าอยู่แล้ว 55 แม้ว่าความพยายามบีบคั้นน้ำตาของหนังมันจะดูไม่ประสบผลสักเท่าไร แต่ดูจบแล้วก็ดีนะ เราชอบอารมณ์หนังรักอเมริกันอินดี้เล็กๆ แบบนี้อยู่แล้ว หนังมีอารมณ์ละม้ายคล้าย Moonlight Mile อยู่มากเลย แต่สลับกันเป็นผู้หญิงตาย (เรื่องนั้นมี Susan Sarandon เป็นแม่อีกแล้ว แล้วก็มี Dustin Hoffman กับ Jake Gyllenhaal) 😉
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Well, this movie provided, on one hand, one of the sweetest and saddest love stories I have ever seen and, on the other hand, a solid depiction of 2 parents losing their child with some strong performances by Susan Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan. So, the material was pretty good but, unfortunately, Shana Feste, in her directing debut, never really managed to mix these 2 stories together. Indeed, for some reason, she basically forced these parents and this pregnant teenage girl…
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Allen and Grace Brewster (Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon) lose their eldest son in a car accident. A girl the family doesn’t know, Rose (Carey Mulligan), survives. It turns out she is carrying the son’s child. The girl has no family of her own, so the Brewsters let her live with them. Grace does not accept the new member of the family, while Allen finds some comfort in her presence. He looks forward to the child; his wife does not.…
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This movie came out in 2009, but I don’t ever remember it showing in theaters. Perhaps it only made it to DVD, not sure. In any case, I stumbled upon it via Netflix and was pleasantly surprised that my new female favorite, Carey Mulligan is in it along with long time stalwarts, Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon. There is no question the film by young director Shana Feste is long on emotional manipulation and melodrama, but it also feels real…
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For some reason, Susan Sarandon just gets roles wherein she is grieving for someone. She does it well but The Greatest does not appear to be her best moment. The characters, the music feel automated in their mourning. It’s as if they’re under a spell and they do not feel anything authentic. The effect is kind of funny. Thank God, Carey Mulligan still has charm to offer. Fresh from her breakout role and Oscar nom, her face and her voice offer brightness and sweetness that the rest of the film refuses to have.
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- Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out she's pregnant, she winds up at the Brewer's door. She needs their help, and although they can't quite admit it, they each need her so they can begin to heal.
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- Shana Feste
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- Shana Feste
- Studio
- Barbarian Films, Oceana Media Finance, Silverwood Films, Irish Dreamtime
- Country
- USA
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- English
- Year
- 2009
- Runtime
- 99 mins
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- South Korea06 Jan 2011
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- Italy25 Aug 2009
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