The Bookshop (2017)

Cast

Bill Nighy
as Edmund Brundish
Patricia Clarkson
as Violet Gamart
Emily Mortimer
as Florence Green
Julie Christie
as Narrator

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Genres & Description

Drama

6.5 / 10

England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence's obstacles amass and bear suspicious signs of a local power struggle, she is forced to ask: is there a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one? Based on Penelope Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel and directed by Isabel Coixet (Learning to Drive), The Bookshop is an elegant yet incisive rendering of personal resolve, tested in the battle for the soul of a community.

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Comments on this trailer
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mvillar65

0:57 Christine. - @Thursday, November 1, 2018 10:50 PM

Kemran Turamanov

Если чесно фуфло а не фильм.нудный.нестоит смотреть это мусор..🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮👎👎👎 - @Thursday, September 27, 2018 11:32 PM

Andulamb

Waaay too much silly melodrama about a bookshop. The writer really couldn't come up with a better plot than a good, young, attractive woman wants to open a bookshop and an old, evil, bitter woman wants to shut it down? Good Lord. And it's not even very well written. "Where there's life, there's hope." "God, what a horrifying thought." Which no doubt will get a laugh, and was meant to get a laugh, but why? What's horrifying about "where there's hope, there's life"? Is life a bad thing? Is hope a bad thing? Is it funny just because Nighy plays a sour old man and he said something sour, even if it doesn't make any sense? Should we be bothered that Mortimer's line is irrelevant and that it could be replaced with any positive aphorism? How about... "It's always darkest before the storm." "God, what a horrifying thought." Or... "Success is falling down nine times and getting up ten." "God, what a horrifying thought." The rest of the trailer is the same: not an interesting line of dialog anywhere. Just characters saying perfunctory things that people should say in a silly melodrama about a bookshop. - @Wednesday, September 19, 2018 4:05 PM

Yoo Toob

The trailer makes this look like it's going to be a feel-good period piece where the meanies grow a golden heart in the end. It's a much more substantial story and the film epitomizes CONFIDENT directing and dedicated performances. Splendid cast delivers in spades. i saw this two hours ago and I'm still in a mood. Astonishing storytelling, now I want to read the book. - @Thursday, September 6, 2018 1:43 AM

Alana Devlin

Can anyone tell me what everyone's problem with the main character is? After watching the film I couldn't figure it out. It doesn't seem it's the book shop that they have a problem with so much as the woman herself - @Tuesday, July 31, 2018 8:42 AM

Novelista

I really struggled with this film. I found quite a lot of the acting to be very forced and I felt the need to cringe for them on several occasions. The editing also seemed problematic, it dragged in places and was unnecessarily choppy in others. Not a huge fan. Also, considering this is set in the 1950's I found the BRAND NEW penguin clothbound classics which were used in virtually every scene to be really distracting. - @Friday, July 13, 2018 10:31 PM

Tahiera Monique Brown

This is a fantastic trailer. I would love to see this. - @Saturday, July 7, 2018 11:41 PM

Debbie Millar

Brilliant! Loved this movie. - @Thursday, July 5, 2018 2:10 AM

Di Hill

A great movie. Unusual and I didn't like the end - I'd hoped for a happier ending! Loved it, would see it again. - @Tuesday, July 3, 2018 11:30 PM

randall gregerson

Am I the only one who is sick of these trailers playing the WHOLE movie in miniature? - @Saturday, June 30, 2018 3:09 PM

Eric Foster

If I had a choice between watching this movie and being dipped in a vat of boiling oil, I would choose the latter. - @Friday, June 29, 2018 8:46 PM

Mr H9736

This is a film? - @Friday, June 29, 2018 4:25 PM

Male Isac

Not my type of movie!! I prefer action movies - @Friday, June 29, 2018 3:47 AM

andrew james Bunting

A fine, fine film. - @Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:36 PM

Marios

I really liked it! At first I thought it was going to be an insipid film at how great it is to be quirky, bookish and innately British. Wrong. It's a story about the lengths of people's odiousness and manipulation to drag you down on your feet and isolate you till you can no longer defend yourself. This trailer itself is very misleading! - @Tuesday, June 26, 2018 2:20 AM

Stephenie Hamilton

Loved this movie - @Sunday, June 24, 2018 1:27 AM

Lizzie Neils

This is really odd to watch because I went to school with Harvey bennet and to be honest he was quiet nice 😂 - @Saturday, June 23, 2018 2:44 PM

waisehell

so is this the soft drama meant for the dullest of people as this trailer shows or is it more in line with previous Coixet films? - @Thursday, June 21, 2018 8:06 AM

ratljost ratljost

Oh, the girl from Sherlock - @Tuesday, June 19, 2018 4:49 PM

Sinema izle

The Bookshop - HD http://www.sinemaseyret.org/the-bookshop.html - @Wednesday, June 6, 2018 7:34 AM

Nia

Why would anyone protest a bookshop especially those old fuddy-duddies? as if an art centre is a million miles away from a bookshop. I could understand it if it was something completely parallel to what these busybodies are used to in these types of hoity-toity towns. In the normal world, the bookshop and the art centre theme would combine and have nights where they showcased art to maximize profits. The script is cliche af and it doesn't make it an intelligent film because you use toffs voices, piano music and books, without using any common sense. - @Tuesday, June 5, 2018 3:01 PM

Amy Lorenzo

ATM the only movies available are action movies and this...why? - @Sunday, June 3, 2018 2:32 AM

Sameer Ali

what's the music in the trailer ? - @Saturday, June 2, 2018 10:16 PM

paul8kangas

Those who read -- LEAD! ONE in 36 boys can no longer read, due to mandatory vaccinations. By 2020, women will rule the world, as most men will be autistic zombies. - @Friday, June 1, 2018 11:59 PM

band

Anyone knows what is the score used for this trailer? - @Friday, June 1, 2018 5:10 PM

Pauly

You’re never alone when you’re in a bookshop 💙 - @Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:45 AM

Mark Crooks

I really enjoyed this movie, good feel good Sunday evening movie - @Wednesday, May 30, 2018 1:25 AM

Wendy Nichols

This should be good a movie about a bookshop 💕💕 - @Monday, May 28, 2018 3:38 PM

ytubeanon

"I like books, but that's just me, you wouldn't understand because you hate books." "Grr, fucking books, filling people's heads with ideas, destroy her bookstore." - @Thursday, May 24, 2018 10:52 PM

Serenity

Yes, it was a GREAT movie for sure. - @Wednesday, May 23, 2018 7:41 AM

kate davenporty

looks good. - @Monday, May 21, 2018 3:22 AM

oxalis lps

Going to watch this movie ASAP :) - @Saturday, May 19, 2018 3:50 PM

Lucchina75

What is the reference of the Music at 2:08, please ? - @Sunday, May 6, 2018 5:44 PM

YouMe&Tea

At last a decent film with substance. Saw the The Guernsey potato peel pie society film it was fantastic. - @Tuesday, April 24, 2018 8:50 AM

Marie Bellucci

Bill Nighy..... <3 - @Sunday, April 22, 2018 10:24 AM

guyfroml

This movie will be a wonderful challenge to see if great actors can make a boring story interesting. - @Friday, April 20, 2018 7:30 PM

Mari Cruz Garcia

why don't you credit the director, who is a Spanish person? Yo talk about sexism but don't say anything about Anglo-saxon racism - @Friday, April 20, 2018 6:48 PM

poppy smith

Oh my God what a load of pretentious lovie claptrap.......................... - @Sunday, April 15, 2018 12:39 PM

Brian Linville

So sublime! - @Sunday, April 15, 2018 10:42 AM

Daughter of The King

Does she look like Cloris Leachman to anyone else?!? - @Thursday, April 12, 2018 4:27 AM

K M

When will this be released on DVD? - @Wednesday, April 4, 2018 1:54 AM

Jerry C

Academy Award winning movie that will be seen by dozens of people worldwide. - @Wednesday, March 28, 2018 12:06 AM

Charles Miller

Bill Nighy, 1:28 typecast again. - @Saturday, March 24, 2018 6:44 AM

Anna P

Interesting concept and story line with one hell of a good cast. I'm sure it's a great film. Here's to success of what seems a quiet, yet profound movie. - @Tuesday, March 20, 2018 12:56 AM

Annora Eksteen

Now that bookshops are slowly dying... Maintenant que les librairies meurent lentement... Nou dat die boekwinkels stadig besig is om te sterf... Nu dat de boekwinkels langzaam sterven... Ngoku iincwadi zokubhuka ziyafa ngokukhawuleza... - @Friday, March 16, 2018 2:26 AM

ashley duke

This is RUBBISSSSSHHHHH!!!! - @Monday, March 12, 2018 10:12 AM

Earth Suit

Looking forward to this! - @Monday, March 12, 2018 1:41 AM

Embittered Drunk

Money would have been better spent on making a film version of The Charles Paris Mysteries even if they do rely a lot on Radio 4 in jokes. - @Sunday, March 11, 2018 2:53 PM

garyoldmanfan25

Really wish trailers would stop giving so much of the film away! Good to see Bill back though. - @Friday, March 9, 2018 8:18 AM

Deb Terry

What a refreshing different role to see Bill Nighy in ... SO looking forward to this.. Hugs! Deb - @Thursday, March 8, 2018 12:26 AM