Sorry We Missed You

 Sorry We Missed You 2019

• Director: Ken Loach
• Seen by this director: I Daniel Blake, The Angel’s Share, Looking for Eric, Sweet Sixteen, Bread and Roses, My Name Is Joe, Carla’s Song, Land and Freedom, Raining Stones, Riff-Raff, Kes
• Based on a book: no
• Cast: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor, Ross Brewster
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Sadly, none of these great actors.
• Why? Ken Loach
• Seen: 24 October 2021      

       Ricky (Hitchen) is tired of all his low-paying manual labour jobs and signs on a franchise to deliver packages.  It all sounds good but what he hasn’t reckoned with is the constant stress, the costs, the traffic, the parking, the wrong addresses, the nasty manager, the long hours, the disruption to his wife Abby’s (Honeywood) work as a caregiver to the elderly. She had to sell her car to finance Ricky’s van and now she has to take the bus back and forth across town. Neither of them has enough time for their two kids.

       No one can show the grimness and pressures of working-class lives like Ken Loach. The film is excellent but it’s so stressful that I feel an anxiety attack coming on.

       And I’m just watching a film. This is reality for workers today, everywhere. Isn’t it time for a revolution? 

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