6.6 /10 1 Votes
82% Rotten Tomatoes Written by Debbie Tucker Green Country United Kingdom Director Debbie Tucker Green Editor Mark Eckersley | 5.2/10 IMDb Directed by Debbie Tucker Green Running time 105 minutes Initial release 7 September 2014 Cinematography Urszula Pontikos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Idris Elba, Nadine Marshall Release date 7 September 2014 (2014-09-07) (Toronto International Film Festival)
5 June 2015 (2015-06-05) Nominations BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Cast Idris Elba, Nadine Marshall, Nicola Walker, Larrington Walker, Tosin Cole Similar Idris Elba movies, Dramas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Second Coming is a 2014 film directed by Debbie Tucker Green. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.
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- Cast
- Plot
- Release
- Reception
- Awards
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Cast
Plot
A married couple who no longer have sex are left with unanswered questions when the wife mysteriously becomes pregnant.
Release
Second Coming premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014 and is distributed by Film Movement in the USA. It was released on DVD in the UK, on 6 July 2015.
Reception
The film received mostly positive reviews and has a score of 82% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Variety praised the film, saying: "Idris Elba and Nadine Marshall excel in Debbie Tucker Green's oblique, engrossing psychodrama."
The Guardian awarded it four out of five stars, saying: "The pure fear that Marshall wordlessly suggests is superb."
The Telegraph awarded it three out of five stars, saying: "while this is an uneven, imperfect film, it's still an unusual and interesting one: a slice of modern British bleakness, with just enough strangeness to keep things fresh."
Empire awarded it three out of five stars, calling it: "A soulful drama that heralds the arrival of a new voice in British cinema."
The London Evening Standard also awarded it three out of five stars, saying: "Thank goodness for Idris Elba, whose beauty and star power will ensure this brazenly weird romantic drama from London playwright Debbie Tucker Green doesn’t get brushed aside."
Time Out awarded it four out of five stars, saying" "‘Second Coming’ is sometimes confusing, but always compelling and often powerful."
Awards
The film was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.