Albatross
United Kingdom
2011
88 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
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Albatross is the story of Emelia Conan-Doyle (Jessica Brown Findlay), a cheeky force of nature and the 17 year old heir to the legacy of Arthur Conan Doyle. Harboring an ambition to follow in the literary footsteps of her grandfather, Emelia writes while working at a stuffy seaside hotel populated by another blocked novelist Jonathan (Sebastian Koch), his put-upon wife (Julia Ormond) and their daughter Beth (Felicity Jones, Like Crazy). Instigating a whirlwind of change, Emilia first befriends and emancipates the bookish daughter Beth (Jones), alarms her career frustrated mother (Ormond), before bewitching Jonathan himself. –IFC Films
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Matthew_Lucas
13Jan12
Painfully flat mixture of coming of age drama and mid life crisis comedy about an aspiring young writer who begins an affair with her bookish best friend's father, a famous writer. One cliche after another, and hampered by an awful script, the film was a lot better when it was called AMERICAN BEAUTY.
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EIFF 2011 - ALBATROSS Review
By Twitchfilm.com on December 27, 2011
[This is a reprint of a review published at BlogCritics.org]Making its world premiere at the EIFF 2011, Niall MacCormick’s coming-of-age comedy-drama Albatross is destined to be one of the most talked
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