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• A long way down by Nick Hornby ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 7, 2005 Four suicidal depressives, meaning to do themselves in, meet on the same London rooftop—and form a pact—in an unpredictably comic fourth novel from Hornby.
• Storyline In a follow-up to the documentary series 'Long Way Round', actors and best friends Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman travel from John O'Groats, Scotland down to Cape Town, South Africa on motorcycles. They travel down through Europe and Africa, getting an up-close view of the local cultures.
• But A Long Way Down takes risks, and it does things that most authors are afraid to do, which is talk about suicide and it does it in such a smart way that it becomes a book that is actually against suicide in the long run. This book reminds me of something that Chuck Palahniuk would have written, only it is better written than that.
• A Long Way Down is a quirky film. Although it's based on a novel by beloved author Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy), the premise that the four main characters come together because they're all planning to commit suicide from the same roof on the same New Year's Eve is a.

In this touching comedy based on the acclaimed novel by Nick Hornby, A LONG WAY DOWN centers on four strangers (Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul and Imogen Poots) who decide to end it all on New Year’s Eve. However, when they meet by chance on a London rooftop, they agree to halt their plans for six weeks. Along the way, they discover that even accidental, dysfunctional families.

Anyway, to cut a long story short,

I decided to kill myself.

That's the trouble with

suicides, I've learnt.

You can't cut the long story short,

because it's the long story

that people are interested in.

Especially if you're me,

which, regrettably, I was

and still am to this day.

So, forgive me if you already

knew this, but I'm Martin Sharp,

the man who had everything.

One wife, two children, three dogs,

at least four People's Choice awards,

and five mornings a week on the most

successful breakfast show in Britain.

Huh, they were even

offering me Mondays off.

So far, so good.

I had reachedmiddle age

unscathed, with money in the bank.

Until I met SusieJenkins at a

launch for a new men's moisturiser.

- Happy New Year, mate.

- All I can say in my defence, Your Honour,

is that she looked 25 to me.

But she wasn't.

Cue, in chronological order,

tabloid frenzy, a short

prison sentence, divorce,

disgrace, demolition.

Doors closing.

New Year's Eve is supposed

to be a pause for breath,

a punctuation mark.

Well, I had come to a full stop.

Really.

Why wouldn't I want to throw myself

off the top of a tall building?

Oh! Oh!

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Hi.

Um, I'm not entirely sure

how to phrase this, but..

Are you going to be long?

- What?

- I wasn't sure whether to wait my turn, or..

I hadn't considered the wire. I'd

really like to borrow your ladder.

Maybe I should

just wait. I'll wait.

Are you just going to

stand there and watch?

No. No, of course. You'll be wanting

to do it on your own, I'd imagine.

You imagine right.

I'll go there.

All right.

I'll give you a shout

on the way down.

Right.

Oh, jeez!

I can't.

Maybe you should go first.

I would want to be on my own.

- Completely.

- Understood.

Twenty minutes, then

I want my spot back.

- Right.

- OK.

- Ooh!

- Oh!

Maureen.

Martin.

Are you from..

- Oh, I.. I recognise your face.

- Oh, do you?

Were you married to

someone in a pop group?

No.

- Were you on TV?

- Maureen, perhaps this is not

the best time to talk about this.

- Out of my way, fuckers!

- No, stop, stop!

No! No!

- Maureen, a bit of help?

- Who the f*ck are you?

- What do you want me to do?

- Sit on her legs.

You're getting a thrill out of

this, aren't you, you pervert?

- Oh, my God.

- What?

You're Martin Sharp. You

are a pervert, officially!

That's it! Rise and Shine

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with Martin and Penny!

Just let me go..

- No, just..

- Wait!

Hi.

Erm..

Any of you guys order a pizza?

Well, shall we do introductions?

I'm Jess.

Everyone calls me Jess.

I.. I'm Maureen.

- I'm, uh.. I'm JJ.

- I'm..

- Martin Sharp.

- Yes.

It's very exciting to have a

celebrity in our suicidal midst.

- This feels wrong.

- Mmm.

All right, well, we could just

do a 'one, two, three, jump!'

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I wouldn't have minded if it had

been the proverbial cry for help,

but, believe me, you don't cart

a ladder up 15 flights of stairs

on a freezing cold New Year's

Eve unless you're serious.

Nice to meet you.

It was just another debacle.

Another cock-up.

I'd have believed you if you'd

told me half an hour before

that I'd end up on my car,

but not in it.

And I absolutely knew, with

every fibre of my being,

that I wouldn't be seeing any of

those freaks and misfits again.

I didn't know what they

were doing up there.

And I didn't want to find

out, thank you very much.

I had no interest whatsoever.

Oh, f*ck.

Do I regret stopping

to pick her up?

Well, that really is along story.

- Want a lift?

A Long Way Down Quotes

- No, no.

The bus will be along

in 15 minutes.

Get in the car, Maureen.

A Long Way Down is a 2014 British black comedy film directed by Pascal Chaumeil, loosely based on author Nick Hornby's 2005 novel, A Long Way Down. It stars Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, and Aaron Paul as four strangers who meet on the roof of a London building on New Year's Eve, each with the intent of committing suicide. Their plans for death in solitude are ruined when they meet as they decide to come down from the roof alive, however temporary that may be.

Plot[edit]

Martin Sharp (Pierce Brosnan) is contemplating suicide on New Year's Eve on the roof of the Toppers Building, high above London's streets. He is interrupted by a woman, Maureen (Toni Collette), who has the same fate in mind. She shyly offers to wait her turn, until two other strangers, a young woman named Jess (Imogen Poots) and a pizza deliverer called J.J. (Aaron Paul), also turn up.

Martin is recognized by the others, having been a popular television personality before going to prison for a relationship with a girl who turned out to be 15. After talking things over, the four strangers form a pact, vowing to wait at least until Valentine's Day before taking their lives.

Maureen has a disabled son she adores, but little life beyond that. Jess is the daughter of a politician (Sam Neill) and their relationship is strained. J.J. is an American who once played in a band, but while his three new acquaintances are suicidally depressed, he claims that he is terminally ill with cancer.

To profit from misfortune, Martin hatches a scheme that makes them the talk of London, claiming their mass suicide was interrupted by a vision. They end up on his old TV chat show, where Martin's former co-host Penny (Rosamund Pike) makes her guests feel humiliated and even more depressed.

The four go off to a vacation resort to get away from London's attention. They enjoy each other's company, at least until a confession by one of them and the intervention of a reporter named Kathy drives them apart. Matty, Maureen's son, has a heart attack but recovers. Jess and Martin visit Maureen in the hospital but J.J. can't be contacted. They realise it's Valentine's Day and that their pact has ended. All four end up back in London on the very same rooftop with the other three coaxing J.J. off the edge successfully.

On New Year's Eve that year, they video call each other. Martin is looking after his daughter, Maureen is enjoying herself at a New Year's party, and J.J. and Jess are in a happy relationship.

Cast[edit]

• Pierce Brosnan as Martin Sharp
• Toni Collette as Maureen Thompson
• Imogen Poots as Jess Crichton
• Aaron Paul as J.J. Maguire
• Rosamund Pike as Penny
• Sam Neill as Mr. Crichton
• Tuppence Middleton as Kathy Miller
• Joe Cole as Chas Johnson
• Josef Altin as Matty

Production[edit]

Brosnan has stated that TV presenter Richard Madeley was an inspiration to him in playing the role. While reading the script for the film in the Colombe D'Or restaurant in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Brosnan stated that he saw Madeley and his wife Judy Finnigan and later said 'I think it's his sheer ebullience and enthusiasm. You have to be almost shamanic to do it, really, and really believe in yourself. And it's a thin line between being affable and being really annoying. So it takes a brave soul, really.'^[3]

Release[edit]

The film premiered at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival on 10 February 2014.^[4]

Reception[edit]

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A Long Way Down received negative reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 22%, based on 50 reviews, with an average score of 4.2/10. The site's consensus reads, 'Tonally jumbled and conceptually ill-advised, A Long Way Down bungles its source material and wastes a talented cast.'.^[5] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 34, based on 21 reviews, indicating 'generally unfavorable reviews'.^[6]

In 2015, the film won a Voice Award from the American Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.^[7]

References[edit]

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1. ^'Pierce Brosnan filming in Mallorca for 'A Long Way Down''. Signature-estate.com. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
2. ^'A Long Way Down (2014)'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
3. ^'Stateside success: Richard Madeley's the inspiration for Pierce Brosnan's new role'. Best Daily. 19 March 2014. Archived from the original on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
4. ^'Berlinale Special Gala' (in German). Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
5. ^'A Long Way Down'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
6. ^'A Long Way Down'. Metacritic.
7. ^'Winners of the 2015 Voice Awards'. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016.

External links[edit]

• A Long Way Down on IMDb