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being damaged and how even her mother had warned him about her, and wishing they would have a child which would pay for its parents' sins. He never heard back from either of them. Tony's two best friends from Sixth Form later informed him that Adrian, who had seemed happy and in love at first, had committed suicide. Tony believed that Veronica could have met Adrian through her brother Jack, who like Adrian studied at the
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Veronica later broke up with Tony, having never had full sexual intercourse with him - until after their breakup. He received a letter from Adrian requesting his blessing for his new relationship with Veronica. At first he decided to respond positively, but then wrote an angry reply, writing of her
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In flashback, we hear that Tony's Sixth Form classmate, Dobson, died from what many believed to be suicide after his girlfriend became pregnant. Tony's friend, the highly intelligent Adrian Finn, told their history teacher that in the absence of documentary evidence nobody will ever know the true
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In the present day, Tony tells his ex-wife Margaret about his relationship with Veronica for the first time. Tony reconnects with his two Sixth Form friends and they help him locate Veronica online. She is still angry at him, has burned Adrian's diary, which might have explained why he committed
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The story, told through Tony Webster's memories, and those of his friends, explores the imperfection and selectivity of memory, and the different recollections of past events, depending on the observer and the time since the event. Elements of the plot are used to compare the perhaps impossible
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Elderly divorcé Anthony 'Tony' Webster runs a London camera shop and lives quietly. He receives a letter from the estate of Sarah Ford, the mother of his 1960s university girlfriend Veronica. To his surprise she has left him £500 and a diary, which is still with Veronica.
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middle-aged man who bears a striking resemblance to, and is called, Adrian. Tony learns that the child is not Veronica's son but her younger half-brother, and guesses he is the son of Adrian and Veronica's mother, Sarah.
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Tony's daughter Susie, whose pregnancy has been a subplot throughout the film, gives birth to a healthy boy. Tony writes to Veronica, apologising to her for what he did.
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grossed $ 1.3 million in the United States and Canada and $ 3.2 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $ 4.5 million.
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on 2 January 2017. The film was released in the United States on 10 March 2017 and in the United Kingdom on 14 April 2017.
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problem of obtaining a definitive objective view of history with the similar difficulties involved in personal memory.
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suicide, but hands him the angry letter he had written to her and Adrian. Spying on Veronica, Tony sees her with an
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proves consistently gripping even as it skims the narrative surface of its literary source material." On
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and Ed Rubin of Origin Pictures would finance the film. On 6 August 2015, an
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on 2 January 2017. It was released in the United States on 10 March 2017, by
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would be financing, and FilmNation also handling the international sales.
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was cast in the film for the lead role, which BBC Films and
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Ritesh Batra
Nick Payne
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
David M. Thompson
Jim Broadbent
Charlotte Rampling
Harriet Walter
Emily Mortimer
Michelle Dockery
Billy Howle
Max Richter
FilmNation Entertainment
BBC Films
StudioCanal
Lionsgate
CBS Films
Palm Springs
mystery
drama
Ritesh Batra
Nick Payne
novel of the same name
Julian Barnes
Jim Broadbent
Charlotte Rampling
Harriet Walter
Billy Howle
Emily Mortimer

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