Onwards and Sideways
Picturehouse
About
Onwards and Sideways is a film about two strangers who, on the same morning, are each confronted with a diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease. Tony Evans is a deputy head of a primary school, and Emma Kent is a musician, composer and single mother of two daughters, and neither knows the other until a startling encounter changes the course of their lives. It is the story of a friendship that unfolds unexpectedly, one of humour and emotion, of challenge and bravado, of music and dance, transcending the assumptions of a little understood condition. The drama was directed by John Madden and stars Rhys Ifans, Laura Linney, Monica Dolan and Rory Kinnear.
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Critics
7.0Good
Critics praise the two lead performances as superb and the film's authentic, compassionate handling of illness with humour. They fault its soft-centered, anodyne and programmatic writing that sometimes feels like high-end television.
Reviews: Variety, Screen Daily, The Guardian, TMDb
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Venue
Picturehouse is in London.
Picturehouse- Director
- John Madden
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 114 min
