A Month of Sundays

2015

109 mins

Directed by Matthew Saville
60%
63%
13+
Comedy
Drama

Anthony LaPlagia (Balibo) and Julia Blake (Innocence) star in this comedy-drama and character study about an unlikely friendship between a... More

Anthony LaPlagia (Balibo) and Julia Blake (Innocence) star in this comedy-drama and character study about an unlikely friendship between a middle-aged real estate agent and an elderly woman. Co-stars the great John Clarke.

"As a realtor, Frank Mollard (LaPaglia) is oddly passive. As a recent divorcé, he is curiously companionable with his ex-wife, Wendy (Justine Clarke). Not exactly impenetrable, but certainly not demonstrative either, Frank seems chronically distracted by life's little details. But things begin to change for him when he receives a phone call from his dead mother.

"Actually, it turns out to have been just a wrong number, and Frank winds up befriending the caller, Sarah (Blake). But to Sarah's son, Damien (Donal Forde), something about this realtor does not compute. Is Frank a shark scoping out a potential property? Is he a lonely man looking to replace his dearly departed mother? It's possible that not even Frank himself knows for sure." (Toronto International Film Festival)

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A Month of Sundays | Ratings & Reviews

60_%20 reviews
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63_%105 reviews
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"A Month of Sundays" is so tidily plotted, so committed to its improve-thyself epiphanies, that it never transcends its own artifice."

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Variety

"The good things don't quite make up for the weaknesses, and the film's rather dour tone makes it a tough sell on word of mouth."

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Urban Cinefile

"Situations, subplots and even barely seen characters are unified with an almost cosmic sense of fate."

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The Guardian

"It's difficult to decide just what Saville is aiming to achieve with these characters."

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The Australian

"[Director Saville has] given LaPaglia a role so good that it conjures up comparisons with his terrific work in Ray Lawrence's Lantana 15 years ago."

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Sydney Morning Herald

"Contrived, occasionally credulity-snapping, even – here and there – a bit saccharine... But it is also, in its own quite unique way, a little ripper."

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Stuff

"Strongly written parts -- and good performances, particularly by lead actor and executive producer Anthony LaPaglia -- enliven the film's brush with the familiar."

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Screen Daily

"This modest, warmhearted character study is carried by a solid lead performance from Anthony LaPaglia, who plays a man unable to express his feelings through anything but underhanded snark."

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Hollywood Reporter

"A quiet, tender-hearted and gently eccentric affair, the Australian-made A Month Of Sundays takes its own sweet time finding a way into your good graces."

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