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Oct. 6, 2023
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This heartwarming film sheds light on the concept of deep friendship, making you question how far you would go to protect someone you love. This movie features real life problems - relating back to the viewers at home. By: Dylan Low
Genres: Drama
Distributor: All3Media
All3mediainternational.com
+44 2078454377
Length: 120 Mins
Director: Mark Munden
Description
This TV film showcases the interactions between Sarah, a care home worker and Tony, a young resident with early onset Alzheimer’s. This story unfolds in a care home around 2020, the period when the COVID pandemic hits.
As the pair talk to each other, they soon develop a friendship, through past stories of their awful behaviour in school and insulting other football clubs. However as friends, they begin dealing with feelings such as grief, loss and helplessness, particularly by Sarah.
This movie highlights the authenticity of the COVID-19 situation, which the film showcases a perspective on how it must have felt to live through the pandemic, making known the deficiencies of the healthcare industry alongside government policies.
Amidst the virus, there have been understaffing issues, with patients being placed in care homes instead of hospitals. In a severe pandemic situation with no laundry service and patients needing to be fed, it resulted in many residents facing sickness and death, in the worst-case scenario.
As Sarah realizes the fatality of the pandemic, this story aims to tug at the heartstrings of the viewers as Sarah fights on to protect Tony, from being an indirect victim of COVID. She battles to make sure she can hide with him for long enough to prove he is healthy and would not have to move out - to a home that will treat him the same way she saw the others being treated.
This story aims to relate back to viewers watching at home, by showcasing the plight of citizens facing a global pandemic, and a relationship that transcends diseases such as dementia.
Having won 12 awards including an International Emmy for Best TV Movie, Best Single Drama at the Broadcast Awards, the Rose D’Or award for Drama and three Seoul awards, this film has garnered the attention of many and is not to be missed. It has also been nominated for further 12 awards.
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