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The novel ‘A Long Way Down’ is not-quite-vintage Nick Hornby. And this is a disappointing film version, a bit hokey and fake. The big problem is the book’s played-for-laughs concept: four suicidal Londoners planning to top themselves on New Year’s Eve choose the same skyscraper to jump off. Pierce Brosnan out-mockneys Jamie Oliver as a disgraced daytime telly presenter fresh out of prison after a sex scandal. Imogen Poots is terrific as a sarky, brattish politician’s daughter (‘it’s exciting to have a celebrity in our suicide midst’). Aaron Paul (Jesse from ‘Breaking Bad’) is a failed rocker working as a pizza delivery guy. And, in a weird bit of casting, Toni Collette (hilarious in ‘The United States of Tara’) drabs it up as a Home Counties single mum. It’s not a spoiler to say that no one takes the plunge. There are funny moments: when the story ends up on national news, attention-seeking Poots tells a reporter how they saw an angel resembling Matt Damon on the roof. Rosamund Pike is hilarious as a bitchy TV host. But it’s hard to care about these characters. None of them is believable for a second. And the film lacks that slip-into-a-Slanket cosy feel you want from Hornby Watch A Long Way Down Full Online Streaming.
Like a cross between a warm-and-fuzzy support-group hug and one of those infernal Garry Marshall-directed holiday ensemblers, this ingratiating adaptation of Hornby’s fourth novel has been interpreted with plucky sitcom style by British TV scribe Jack Thorne and brought to the screen by French helmer Pascal Chaumeil (“Heartbreaker”). Together, they aim to plaster a big old grin on the face of each and every audience member, starting from the unlikeliest possible place to do so.
While the rest of London is ringing in the New Year, disgraced talkshow personality Martin Sharp (Brosnan) lugs a ladder up the stairs of Toppers Tower, Watch A Long Way Down Full Online determined to off himself. As he stands hesitating on the ledge — in the one shot viewers won’t find instantly forgettable — a timid woman named Maureen (Collette, looking like a middle-aged Muriel) joins him on the roof, politely asking whether he wouldn’t mind hurrying it up so that she might take her turn. In short order, Jess (Poots, a dull young thing working overtime to seem eccentric) and J.J. (Paul, typically sullen) turn up, corroborating what their respective stereotypes have already suggested: Each of these individuals is a walking cliche, incapable of an original thought, even when it comes to making his or her exit.