A Long Way Down
- redemptive
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Four lost souls—a disgraced TV presenter, a foul-mouthed teen, an isolated single mother, and a failed musician—decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year's Eve. When this disillusioned quartet of strangers meet unintentionally at the same suicide hotspot, a London high-rise with the well-earned nickname Topper's Tower, they mutually agree to call off their plans for six weeks, forming an unconventional, dysfunctional family. They become media sensations as the Topper House Four and search together for reasons to keep on living.
Our read · A Long Way Down (2014) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of A Long Way Down
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“You want dark comedy about four strangers postponing despair together.”
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