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Second Coming

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• Drama

• 2014
• Debbie Tucker Green
• 100 mins
• 15

Summary

A happily married woman is shocked to discover she is pregnant as it has been months since she slept with her husband. Afraid of her spouse's reaction, she tries to keep the news to herself, but she cannot hide the truth indefinitely. Drama, starring Nadine Marshall, Idris Elba and Kai Francis Lewis

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Trevor Johnston

This home-grown drama charts the simmering tensions in a suburban London household, where wife and mother Nadine Marshall is keeping her pregnancy secret, because sexual relations have long since cooled with her husband Idris Elba. But if he's not the father, who is? The title certainly drops a hint, but playwright Debbie Tucker Green's first feature eschews a specifically Christian interpretation of these confounding events, preferring instead to unfold a story where the everyday and the spiritual are unexpectedly entwined. It's subject matter you'd associate with European arthouse fare - a Robert Bresson, or Krzysztof Kieslowski perhaps - yet the film also delivers an intimate, authentic portrayal of an ordinary Afro-Caribbean British family working their way through a draining emotional situation. Admittedly, the story's slightly too drawn-out, and Marshall's guarded protagonist less appealing than Elba's loving yet tormented hubby, yet overall this is a British film of rare ambition and imagination, which builds to a final image of heart-stopping grace.

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5.1/10

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Cast

rolenameJackieNadine MarshallMarkIdris ElbaJJKai Francis-LewisBernieSharlene WhyteJackie's mumLlewella GideonJackie's dadLarrington WalkerSandraSeroca DavisCounsellorNicola WalkerLaurynJanelle FrimpongPatrickGershwyn Eustache Jr

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rolenameDirectorDebbie Tucker Green

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Theatrical distributor

Kaleidoscope Entertainment

Released on

2015-06-05

Languages

English

Guidance

Swearing.

Available on

DVD

Formats

Colour

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