A Single Man

4.25
    A Single Man
    2009

    Synopsis

    The life of George Falconer, a British college professor, is reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will to live as he seeks the console of his close girl friend Charley, who is struggling with her own questions about life.

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    Cast

    • Colin FirthGeorge Falconer
    • Julianne MooreCharley
    • Nicholas HoultKenny Potter
    • Matthew GoodeJim
    • Jon KortajarenaCarlos
    • Paulette LamoriAlva
    • Ryan SimpkinsJennifer Strunk
    • Ginnifer GoodwinMrs. Strunk
    • Teddy SearsMr. Strunk
    • Paul ButlerChristopher Strunk

    Recommendations

    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      Firth plays him as a man of his time who is also mournfully ahead of his time. He's addicted to his own broken heart. A Single Man may break yours as well.
    • 90

      Time

      Tom Ford -- the Texas-born fashion designer who for a decade was the creative director at Gucci -- financed this first feature himself. The producer couldn't have hired a smarter director.
    • 90

      Variety

      Like the speck of sand that seeds a pearl, it’s the tiny fleck of kitsch at the heart of “A Single Man” that makes it luminous and treasurable, despite its imperfections.
    • 88

      Rolling Stone

      The film belongs to Firth. Uncanny at showing the heart crumbling under George's elegant exterior, he gives the performance of his career.
    • 80

      Newsweek

      A Single Man's sleek surface may go against Isherwood's crisp, understated prose, yet the story's beating, wounded heart and its spiky intelligence still come through, personified in Firth's moving, eloquently internalized performance.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Sensitive and stylish.
    • 63

      ReelViews

      A Single Man tells us about love, isolation, and sorrow, but never makes us feel any of those things.
    • 60

      Salon

      It doesn't matter if the movie around Firth is a good one or a lousy one: Either way, I wouldn't be able to explain how an actor could come up with a performance as subtle, in both its heartbreak and its magnificence, as this one is.

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