Never Let Me Go
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Never Let Me Go

Year:
Duration:
103 min
Genres:
Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
IMDB rate:
7.2
Director:
Mark Romanek
Awards:
7 wins & 25 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 2010-11-25
Filming Locations: Chiswick Town Hall, Heathfield Terrace, Chiswick, London, England, UK
Earnings
Budget: $15,000,000
Opening Weekend: $111,734 (USA) (19 September 2010)
Gross: $2,434,652 (USA) (16 December 2010)
Cast
Actor
Character
Andrew Garfield
Andrew Garfield
Never Let Me Go
Carey Mulligan
Kathy
Izzy Meikle-Small
Young Kathy
Charlie Rowe
Young Tommy
Ella Purnell
Young Ruth
Charlotte Rampling
Miss Emily
Sally Hawkins
Miss Lucy
Kate Bowes Renna
Miss Geraldine
Hannah Sharp
Amanda
Christina Carrafiell
Laura
Oliver Parsons
Arthur
Luke Bryant
David
Fidelis Morgan
Matron
Damien Thomas
Doctor
Nathalie Richard
Madame
Huggy Leaver
Delivery Man 1
Charles Cork
Delivery Man 2
Sylvie Macdonald
Bumper Crop Girl
Keira Knightley
Ruth
David Sterne
Keffers
Andrea Riseborough
Chrissie
Domhnall Gleeson
Rodney
Kate Sissons
Sitcom Girl
Amy Lennox
Sitcom Girl
Anna Maria Everett
Waitress (as Anna-Maria Everett)
John Gillespie
Male Office Worker
Rachel Boss
Female Office Worker
Lydia Wilson
Hannah
Monica Dolan
Nurse
Chidi Chickwe
George
Harvey Allpress
(uncredited)
Beverley Beck
Passer By (uncredited)
George Formby
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The visit to Norfolk, on England's east coast, was filmed in Clevedon and Weston-super-Mare, on England's west coast.
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The French title, "Auprès de moi toujours", translates to "Close To Me Always."
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Mark Romanek said that working with child actors was the most challenging part of making the film, since "the first act of the film was going to have to be carried by 12-year-olds." At rehearsals, Romanek had the younger actors watch the older actors practice their scenes so the older actors would have a memory of having played those scenes, while the child actors would get a better idea of how a more skilled actor would play their part. He also had the child actors spend time together playing and talking to create chemistry between them. He took them to the school set and let them play there so they could get a better idea of the layout.
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Goofs
Tommy runs in the sand out to the wrecked boat on the beach. Soon after, all 3 friends look at the boat, but Tommy's footprints in the sand are gone.
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In 'Completion - 1994', as Tommy and Kathy walk to the garden gate, a VW Passat from at least 2001 drives past.
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When Chrissie, Kathy, Rodney, Ruth, and Tommy look inside the travel bureau to see Ruth's possible, the computer monitors are clearly more modern than 1985.
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Quotes
Kathy: My name is Kathy H. I'm 28 years old. I've been a carer for nine years. And I'm good at my job. My patients always do better than expected, and are hardly ever classified as agitated, even if they're about to make a donation. I'm not trying to boast, but I feel a great sense of pride in what we do. Carers and donors have achieved so much. That said, we aren't machines. In the end it wears you down. I suppose that's why I now spend most of my time not looking forwards, but looking back, to The Cottages and Hailsham, and what happened to us there. Me. Tommy. And Ruth.
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Miss Emily: Hailsham was the last place to consider the ethics of donation. You have to understand - cancer used to kill almost everyone. Now it kills no one at all. We used your art to show what you were capable of. To show that donor children were all but human. But it was all a mistake. We were providing an answer to a question that no one was asking. You see - it's not an ethical issue - it's just about the way we are. If you ask people to return to darkness, the days of lung cancer and breast cancer and motor neurone disease... they simply say no. Do you understand?
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Kathy: It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I'd known, maybe I'd have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart.
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Faq
Q
Is this based on a book?
A
The film is based on the book Never Let Me Go by Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize.
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