Never Let Me Go

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  • Opened September 15, 2010 (Limited 9/15)
  • 1 hr 43 min
  • R | sexuality and nudity

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+. More on child suitability

  • Friends Kathy (Carey Mulligan), Tommy (Andrew Garfield) and Ruth (Keira Knightley) grow up together at a seemingly idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. When they leave the school and the horrible truth of their true purpose is revealed to them, they must simultaneously confront deep-seated feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to tear their friendship asunder. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan, Charlotte Rampling, Nathalie Richard
  • Director: Mark Romanek
  • Genres: Drama

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Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

The melancholy attached to the impermanence of life and love suffuses this film, making it memorably haunting and hypnotic. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

A beautifully mopey adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's much-praised novel. Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Amy Biancolli

Never Let Me Go is gorgeous. And depressing. It's exquisitely acted. And depressing. It's romantic, profound and superbly crafted, shot with the self-contained radiance of a snow globe. And it's depressing. Read full review

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New York Daily News
| Elizabeth Weitzman

A film more moving than most but not as devastating as it should be. Read full review

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Carey Mulligan as Kathy, Keira Knightley as Ruth and Andrew Garfield as Tommy in "Never Let Me Go."