Overview
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
Everything was set up for this to be a great movie. You had two terrific actors at the top of their game. You had a dark and sterile English manor as the backdrop. And unhappiness – lots of unhappiness. The result? A decent movie but nothing more. I wanted to like this so much more than I did but it never reached anything beyond “interesting”. I really didn’t care that much about the characters or their unhappiness. I’ve seen better movies about broken people and broken families. I thought that last scene was very good and seemed true to the spirit of the film.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews The Nest
Movie title: The Nest
Movie description: Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
Date published: 2020-12-19
Director(s): Sean Durkin
Actor(s): Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Charlie Shotwell, Oona Roche, Adeel Akhtar, Wendy Crewson, Anne Reid, Michael Culkin, Michel Alexandre Gonzalez, James Nelson-Joyce, Polly Allen, Julian Ferro, Bernardo Santos, Kaisa Hammarlund, Marcus Cornwall, Andrei Alen, Tommy Surridge, Leo Ayres, Aimee Lenihan, Oliver Gatz, Francesco Piacentini-Smith, Kylie Lenihan, David Flanagan
Genre: Drama, Romance
My Review
Everything was set up for this to be a great movie. You had two terrific actors at the top of their game. You had a dark and sterile English manor as the backdrop. And unhappiness – lots of unhappiness. The result? A decent movie but nothing more. I wanted to like this so much more than I did but it never reached anything beyond “interesting”. I really didn’t care that much about the characters or their unhappiness. I’ve seen better movies about broken people and broken families. I thought that last scene was very good and seemed true to the spirit of the film.
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My Review - 7/10
7/10