• Director(s)

    Nicholas Parish

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    05/07/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    100m

  • Cast

    Rory Kinnear, Emily Beecham, Roger Marten

Film

The Old Man and the Land

strong language, domestic abuse

Over a series of telephone conversations with their sheep farmer father, a brother and sister try to come to terms with the past in this bleak and brooding UK drama about family dysfunction.…

Over a series of telephone conversations with their sheep farmer father, a brother and sister try to come to terms with the past in this bleak and brooding UK drama about family dysfunction.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

language

sex

discrimination

drugs

injury detail

theme

threat and horror

  • Director(s)

    Nicholas Parish

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    05/07/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    100m

  • Cast

    Rory Kinnear, Emily Beecham, Roger Marten

strong language, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
26/06/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Milkwood Productions LLP
violence
There are references to a man's history of drunken violent behaviour towards his wife and children, and to a woman being the victim of domestic abuse at the hands of an ex-partner.
language
There is strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms such as 'prick', 'piss', 'arse', 'shit', 'arsehole', 'bollocks', 'bloody', 'hell' and 'God'.
sex
A man makes a sarcastic remark to his sister that she has "penis envy".
discrimination
A daughter accuses her father of doubting her capabilities of running a sheep farm because of her sex, and there are allusions to the father's latent homophobia. Discrimination is not endorsed by the work as a whole.
drugs
It is implied that a man has abused drugs in his past as his sister asks him, "Have you been using again?"
injury detail
A stillborn lamb is pulled out of its mother, along with afterbirth material.
theme
There are mild upsetting moments centred on the loss of family members, and injured animals.
alcohol and smoking
A man has several drunken conversations with his father, and there are references to alcohol addiction.

  • Classified date

    26/06/2024

  • Language

    English