500 Miles Review – the kids hit the road to visit their Irish grandmother Bill Nighy’s YA tearjerker | Video

This, unfortunately, is not a biopic of the Announcers, but a tearjerker family took Charlie and I, Mark Lowery’s book for older children, the journey of a young man who ran away from home with his younger brother to their grandparents. It is a tender film that requires actors to wade through heavy mud. Among them, Bill Nighy while the old man seems to be suffering from a kind of backward Samson with a thick beard that may be due to his charismatic immersion.

The film changes between times. Meanwhile, teenager Finn (Roman Griffin Davis) is on the run after hearing his estranged parents (Clare Dunne and Michael Socha) arguing about who will take which child in the split. Finn takes his younger brother Charlie (Dexter Sol Ansell), and they set off on a 500 kilometer journey from Sheffield to Dingle on the west coast of Ireland where their grandfather John (Nighy) lives.

In his speech, Finn explains that his brother was born prematurely, which leaves him with a long health – so it’s scary when he pushes little Charlie with the luggage on the coach in Manchester. Elsewhere in the journey, Finn meets the bus driver, who is played Mrs. Williamswho, in the film’s most hilarious moments, is forced to play the ukulele and sing renditions of pop music – including (inevitably) a few lines of the Proclaimers’ I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles).

The film revolves around something terrible that happened in the past, which John’s grandfather in Dingle blames himself for, and which is the cause of a terrible family crisis. The tragedy begins slowly in memory; Children in the audience may be surprised and moved by the twists that come with it – but for adults it takes a film that’s already there to make sense.