Sorry We Missed You Movie Storyline. Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self employed delivery driver. It’s hard work, and his wife’s job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.
The film is based around the theme of zero-hour contracts which affect the employment of both main characters. Ricky (Hitchen), a former building worker, is a delivery driver living in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who receives fees rather than wages in his job. His wife Abbie is a contract nurse and home carer. His employment means he is obliged to work for his firm by renting a van from the firm with strict delivery targets. He persuades his wife to sell her car, which she needs for her own job, to be able to afford paying for the van. Ricky’s debts increase because of his employment situation, and his wife’s patients suffer neglect.
Sorry We Missed You is a 2019 British drama film directed by Ken Loach, written by Paul Laverty and produced by Rebecca O’Brien. It stars Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Nikki Marshall, Harriet Ghost, Linda E Greenwood, Brad Hopper, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor, Alfie Dobson, Mark Birch and Charlie Richmond.
Principal photography began in September 2018 in the Newcastle area in north-east England. It was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Despite having a broken arm in a sling, Loach appeared to promote the film at Cannes, where he said that it would be his final film to compete at the festival. It received the audience award for best European film at the 2019 San Sebastián International Film Festival.
The film is scheduled for release in the United Kingdom at the beginning of November 2019, and will see a theatrical release in North America in February 28, 2020.
Film Review for Sorry We Missed You
In Ken Loach’s new film a man makes a pact with the devil and a corporation turns humans into robots. Not literally. Loach, 83, treasured for his neo-realist aesthetic, hasn’t changed the habits of a lifetime.
Ricky (Kris Hitchen) is a weathered Manc with ginger hair. His care-worker wife Abby (Debbie Honeywood), looks like a sleep-deprived Tess Daly. The couple live in Newcastle, with their kids, graffiti-mad Seb (Rhys Stone) and bright-as-a-button Liza-Jane (Katie Proctor).
Ricky, already in debt, thinks that working as a self-employed parcel-delivery-man will turn his fortunes around. He buys into the idea that by working “with” a firm called PDF (Parcel Delivery Fast) he’ll become the owner of a “franchise”. Driving his own white van and armed with a gadget that tracks everything he does, Ricky hits the streets. He’ll deliver those parcels, whatever the cost. Here’s where things get weird. Ricky’s family make it impossible for him to do his job. Seb starts acting like a boy possessed. And there’s a strange gleam in Liza-Jane’s eyes…
Ricky is willing to sell his soul and his freedom in order to achieve success. His loved ones want the real Ricky back. What makes the film terrifying is that everyone’s behaviour makes sense. Ricky doesn’t mean to hurt his family and they don’t mean to hurt him.
It’s a wickedly clever touch that Abby’s job repeatedly brings her into contact with incontinent people, including a woman covered in her own excrement who scratches Abby to pieces. That detail interlocks with the sight of Ricky urinating into a bottle (there’s no time for him to nip to the loo). So many people in this movie have lost control and their helplessness redefines the term body horror.
Sure, Paul Laverty’s script has its unsubtle moments. But mostly it’s funny and restrained. A highlight is Ricky’s debonairly brusque boss, vividly played by Ross Brewster. Meanwhile, Honeywood is howl-out-loud moving. And Stone and Proctor are as supple as dolphins. Loach, clearly still buzzing from the success of I, Daniel Blake, is having the time of his life. Don’t miss this. You’ll be sorry if you do.
Sorry We Missed You (2020)
Directed by: Ken Loach
Starring: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Nikki Marshall, Harriet Ghost, Linda E Greenwood, Brad Hopper, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor, Alfie Dobson, Mark Birch, Charlie Richmond
Screenplay by: Paul Laverty
Production Design by: Fergus Clegg
Cinematography by: Robbie Ryan
Film Editing by: Jonathan Morris
Costume Design by: Jo Slater
Art Direction by: Julie Ann Horan
Makeup Department: Anita Brolly
Music by: George Fenton
Distributed by: Kino Lorber
Release Date: February 28, 2020
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