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247:) in the park, the sparks between the pair are quickly doused when David begins to feel guilty about distancing himself from Lisa. Determined to make thing right, David confesses to his brief fling and gets kicked to the curb for his noble effort. To add insult to injury, Nina admits that she's already moved on and isn't really interested in David anymore. 308:
Mangan talking about the film said that " I think it’s a reasonably common thing for both men and women. Just as you’re on the point of settling down with someone, you do have a bit of a panic It can be scary to commit to someone and shut off all your other options. I’m sure that many people have a
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gave the film positive review and praised the script "Someone Else is the top end of indie filmmaking, with a polished script and even shinier cinematography from Trevor Forrest, but it's low-key enough not to verge onto Richard Curtis territory." David Jenkins of
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gave 4 out of 5 stars and said "Performances and script are both first-rate, but what really rivets is how scarily /familiar/ it all feels, from the listless rebound romances to the forced insularity of post-breakup bachelorhood. Superb stuff." Tim Evans of
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praised the director "Debut writer-director Col Spector draws out richly detailed performances, particularly from Mangan, and the script is bursting with all-too-familiar break-up clichés that can only have been drawn from bitter experience."
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criticized the director and said that "Spector, who's a fluid, straightforward director, resists the crutch of music until the final scene when he goes and blows it all by playing something stupid like... a Gary Barlow song."
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last minute panic, get cold feet and do something rash, only later to regret it. I don’t think the character of David is a bad person, but I think the point is that he didn’t really know what he wanted."
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The characters of David, Matt, Michael and Paul also appeared in Spector's 2002 short film
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portrayed David in both films while different actors played Matt, Michael and Paul.
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received mixed reviews and holds a 50% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Laura Bushell of
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When a local dating agency sends Lisa's photo to David's slacker friend Matt (
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on 20 August 2006 and released on 7 September 2007 in the United Kingdom.
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Stephen Mangan
Lara Belmont
Susan Lynch
Chris Coghill
Shaun Dingwall
John Henshaw
IFC Films
Soda Pictures
EIFF
Comedy drama
independent film
premiere
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Stephen Mangan
Susan Lynch
Lara Belmont
Christopher Coghill
Stephen Mangan
Susan Lynch
Lara Belmont
Chris Coghill
Shaun Dingwall
John Henshaw
London
England
BBC Online
Total Film
Sky Movies
Time Out

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