Wednesday February 5th 2020

UK   2018  105 minutes
Director: Richard Eyre
Starring: Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead

Emma Thompson is outstanding as High Court judge Fiona Maye, having to deal with a difficult case in which 17-year old Adam will die in hospital unless his parents, both devout Jehovah’s Witnesses, give their consent to his receiving a life-saving blood transfusion. In an unorthodox and unprecedented move she decides to visit Adam in the hospital, feeling the need to find out for herself what is motivating the young man. Are his religious convictions his own or simply a mirror of those of his parents? Adapted by Ian McEwan from his novel of the same name, it has been described as a ‘meticulously crafted drama’.