Name: Song for Marion
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Released: 2012
Duration: T1H33M
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Christopher Eccleston, Vanessa Redgrave, Terence Stamp, Anne Reid

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Set in London, this geriatric comedy drama stars Terence Stamp as a shy, grumpy pensioner who is reluctantly inspired by his beloved wife (Vanessa Redgrave) to join a highly unconventional local choir led by Gemma Arterton.

At odds with his son James (Christopher Eccleston), it is up to Elizabeth (Arterton) to try and persuade Arthur (Stamp) that he can learn to embrace life, using music as a way to battle his grumbling persona.

2012Rating: PG, contains mild themes and coarse language93 minsUK

ComedyDramaMusicRomance

All Reviews (8)

Director:: Paul Andrew Williams ('The Cottage', 'London to Brighton')
Writer:: Paul Andrew Williams
Cast:: Gemma ArtertonChristopher EcclestonVanessa RedgraveTerence StampAnne Reid

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Song for Marion / Reviews

Flicks, Rebecca Barry Hill

Retire to another cinema if you don’t fancy giving your tear ducts a work-out. That’s what Terence Stamp’s curmudgeonly Arthur would do in Song For Marion, a film striving to match the success of Quartet, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and, by virtue of its esteemed older cast, The King’s Speech. Even those who find the story’s central choir, the OAPz, (Old-Age Pensioners) cloying will find it hard not to suppress the waterworks. This is one film that’s equal parts moving and grating.

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Variety

A sentimental tearjerker targeted at the over-50s who made "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" a box office hit.

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Total Film

There may be the odd bum note but Williams' film is largely on song and full of genuine, heartfelt emotion. Stamp's masterclass in melancholy is something to behold.

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Time Out

Even though we know where the film's going, it still manages to give the tear-ducts a workout.

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The Guardian

Grit-meister Paul Andrew Williams switches to the key of C major for a commercial crowdpleaser about a seniors' choir.

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Little White Lies

Too emotionally manipulative, but not without its moments of real tenderness and warmth.

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Hollywood Reporter

Redgrave and Stamp have a touching, mismatched chemistry, and in their hands the marriage described in Williams's script feels lived-in and real.

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Empire Magazine

With Redgrave on top form and the story's moving take on devotion in the face of death, your tear ducts will be powerless to resist.

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