Storyline

A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.—Bob Lee

Plot Keywords

hypodermic needle, identity, isolation, kitchen, knife, loss of mother, loss of son, loss of wife, husband wife relationship, honesty, dying young, experimental film, flash forward, funeral, ghost, medicine cabinet, surgeon, surgery, tantrum, telephone

Short Review

The Living and the Dead is not an easy movie to sit through, and its darkness may be a little mannered, but it's an elegant construction with real emotions buried deep inside.

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Streaming Service

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