A Long Way Down (2014)

Stumbled on this one on Netflix and am glad I did. A delightful comedy/drama around the lives of four individuals who plan to commit suicide for different reasons.

Nick Hornby's 2005 book is one of his best, but 2014's 'A Long Way Down' manages to be a contender for the weakest (or one of them) adaptation of his work.As an adaptation, 'A Long Way Down really does disappoint, lacking the biting humour, wryness, depth, intelligence and pathos of the book.

It has a very interesting and promising start, however, afterwards, it descends into an overly boring drama, full of stereotypes, such as music to make you cry, self-help speech, happy ending. The only thing that is saved in the whole film is the performance of the always good Toni Collete, besides, it gets to be painful and tiring to watch it.