Synopsis
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
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Cast
- Andrew GarfieldRobin Cavendish
- Claire FoyDiana Cavendish
- Hugh BonnevilleTeddy Hall
- Tom HollanderBloggs Blacker / David Blacker
- Miranda RaisonMary Dawney
- Dean-Charles ChapmanJonathan
- Diana RiggLady Neville
- Ed SpeleersColin Campbell
- Emily Grace BevanNurse Margaret
- Ben Lloyd-HughesDr. Don McQueen
Recommendations
- 75
IndieWire
It’s a gorgeous, romantic drama that earns its emotional resonance without venturing beyond the most familiar beats. - 60
Empire
There's a hint of comforting, chocolate-box, Sunday-night TV here, but it's delivered via such quietly powerful performances and with such hope that it's hard to resist. - 50
RogerEbert.com
The performances and the inherent power of the true story keep it from being a complete disaster, but one hopes Serkis moves on to more challenging material with his follow-up. - 50
Screen Daily
The lack of emotional distance between the filmmakers and the subject – producer Jonathan Cavendish is the son of Robin and Diana – might account for the bracingly celebratory approach. This is understandable, perhaps, but it results in a lack of dramatic light and shade, and an absence of texture in the characterisation. - 50
Variety
This earnestly romantic biopic of odds-beating polio patient Robin Cavendish and his unwavering wife, Diana, keeps its eyes moist and its upper lip stiff to the last — but its sweeping inspirational gestures rarely reach all the way to the heart. - 50
Slant Magazine
The film is an easily digestible replica of the truth, bathed in honeyed cinematography and sentimentalized adulation. - 50
Los Angeles Times
In leaving out the rasp of life from this unusual story, Breathe too often feels like a mechanized exhale. - 42
The A.V. Club
Breathe seems to want nothing more than to be "The Theory Of Everything" for a slightly newer generation.
