Tyrannosaur

Winner
Special Jury Prize ~ World Cinema (Dramatic)
Sundance Film Festival
Winner
Best Director ~ World Cinema - Dramatic
Sundance Film Festival
It's a brave, tough, truly compassionate film that threatens to bite any hand of comfort held out to it prematurely.
-- Philip French, Observer [UK]

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Tyrannosaur

Joseph (Peter Mullan) is an unemployed widower with a drinking problem, a man crippled by his own volatile temperament and furious anger. Hannah (Olivia Colman) is a Christian worker at a charity shop, a respectable woman who seems wholesome and happy. When circumstance brings the pair together, Hannah appears as Joseph's guardian angel, tempering his fury and offering him warmth, kindness and acceptance. As their relationship develops, Hannah's own secrets are revealed - her husband (Eddie Marsan) is violent and abusive - and Joseph emerges as her unlikely savior. With striking performances and a deeply felt story, actor-turned-writer/director Paddy Considine's film is a stunning debut about the emergence of grace and redemption from the least likely of places.

“This is an intense exploration of the corrosive effects of human violence. And its eventual glimmer of redemption is entirely earned, not artificial or consoling.” (David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter)
Not Rated
Genre
Drama
Runtime
93
Language
English
Director
Paddy Considine
Cast
Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Paul Popplewell
Awards:
Winner, Special Jury Prize ~ World Cinema (Dramatic), Sundance Film Festival
Winner, Best Director ~ World Cinema - Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Matthew Turner, View London

Impressively directed, superbly written and featuring award-worthy performances from all three leads, this is a powerfully moving British drama that confirms Paddy Considine is as talented a director as he is an actor.What's it all about?Written and directed by actor-turned-director Paddy Considine ...

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