Colin Firth takes on a considerably more meaty role in When Did You Last See Your Father? than we're used to seeing him in, and that's a good thing. After all, he doesn't want to get typecast as the handsome man of every woman's dreams who comes to the rescue and gets the girl in the end. Although ... come to think of it, there are worse things to be typecast as, aren't there? Here, instead of playing the loverboy, he plays a son dealing with his father's terminal illness. His dad is played by Oscar winner Jim Broadbent, who in an ironic turn, plays the loverboy here. He's the sick father, of course, but seen in flashbacks, he's a philandering, nutty, emotionally distant father and husband. Firth seems to see that as the worst kind and they don't have too much of a relationship, but once he knows he's going to lose him, he works to remedy that. With two actors of this caliber and a story like this, I think it's best you bring your Kleenex to this. Heck, you might need Kleenex just to get through the trailer.

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