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Samantha Morton

Kathleen McDermott

Raife Patrick Burchell

Dan Cadan

Carolyn Calder

Steven Cardwell

Bryan Dick

El Carrette

Andrew Flannigan

Des Hamilton

Mette Karlsvik

Andrew Knowles

Duncan McHardy

Ruby Milton

Paul Popplewell

Mischa Richter

Vito Rocco

Danny Schofield

Matthew Townend

Andrew Townley

Yolanda Vazquez

Dolly Wells

James Wilson

Linda McGuire

Andy Hazel

Charles Pattinson

George Faber

Lynne Ramsay

Robyn Slovo

Maggie Bazin

Trefor Proud

Ronaldo Vasconcellos

Andrew Cannon

Richard Flynn

Karoline Blohm

Tania Wanstall

Ana Gallardo

Rufus Rawley

Nic Shearer

Anthony Wilcox

Mary Haddow

Alan Warner

Jane Morton

Alwin H. Küchler

Gautier Deblonde

Lucia Zucchetti

Sarah Blenkinsop

Simon Bray

Barbara McKissack

Leonard Crooks

Seaton McLean

Philip Barber

András Hámori

David M. Thompson

Simon Frame

James Andrews

Tim Alban

Jason Swanscott

Barnaby Smyth

Gerard Roche

Glenn Marks

Gruff Owen

Steve Schwalbe

Paul Davies

Melissa Lake

Liana Dognini

Mark Fenn

Michael Elliott

Thomas Townend

Jay Jay Odedra

Lewis Buchan

Andrea Matheson

Ursula Cleary

Andy Long

John Fass

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Samantha Morton is the eponymous, bored, supermarket check out girl whose boyfriend commits suicide. She hides his body, takes his money - and a book that he had recently completed and along with her best friend, sets off on some travels. Initially around a wet and windy Scotland before heading to Spain for some fun. My issue with this rather dreary introspective is that neither she, nor her pal interested me in the slightest. Morton's performance is actually quite good; and her life of drugs, sex and lack of fulfilment may well have been the depiction of a labour of love from director Lynne Ramsey and co-author Liana Dognini, but as a piece of engaging cinema it fails completely. I don't doubt that there are many people for whom this is a manifestation of their psychological difficulties - an inability to form any kind of meaningful relationship - on any level - with anyone else; but it is presented in such a drab, pedestrian fashion that even some grand cinematography of the Balearic scenery does little to lift it from the doldrums.

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Kathleen McDermott

Raife Patrick Burchell

Dan Cadan

Carolyn Calder

Steven Cardwell

Bryan Dick

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