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Morvern Callar

Morvern Callar

  • Status: Released
  • 01-11-2002
  • Runtime: 97 min
  • Score: 6.6
  • Vote count: 167

After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.

Samantha Morton

Morvern Callar

Kathleen McDermott

Lanna Phimister

Raife Patrick Burchell

Boy in Room 1022

Dan Cadan

Dazzer

Carolyn Calder

Tequila Sheila

Steven Cardwell

Welcoming Courier

Bryan Dick

Guy with Hat's Mate

El Carrette

Gypsy Taxi Driver

Andrew Flannigan

Overdose

Des Hamilton

Him

Mette Karlsvik

Sick Girl / Bikini Girl

Andrew Knowles

Green Boy #1

Duncan McHardy

Red Hanna

Ruby Milton

Couris Jean

Paul Popplewell

Guy with Hat

Mischa Richter

Rick, the American Courier

Vito Rocco

Swimming Pool Courier

Danny Schofield

Dave

Matthew Townend

Green Boy #2

Andrew Townley

Creeping Jesus

Yolanda Vazquez

Spanish Mother

Dolly Wells

Susan

James Wilson

Tom Boddington

Linda McGuire

Vanessa (uncredited)

Andy Hazel

Dancer in Club (uncredited)

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Samantha Morton is the eponymous, bored, supermarket check out girl whose boyfriend commits suicide. She hides his body, takes his money - and a book that he had recently completed and along with her best friend, sets off on some travels. Initially around a wet and windy Scotland before heading to Spain for some fun. My issue with this rather dreary introspective is that neither she, nor her pal interested me in the slightest. Morton's performance is actually quite good; and her life of drugs, sex and lack of fulfilment may well have been the depiction of a labour of love from director Lynne Ramsey and co-author Liana Dognini, but as a piece of engaging cinema it fails completely. I don't doubt that there are many people for whom this is a manifestation of their psychological difficulties - an inability to form any kind of meaningful relationship - on any level - with anyone else; but it is presented in such a drab, pedestrian fashion that even some grand cinematography of the Balearic scenery does little to lift it from the doldrums.