Gillian Anderson

Jason Isaacs

James Lance

Hermione Norris

Rebecca Ineson

Tucker St Ivany

Denis Lill

Angus Wright

Georgia Henshaw

Pippa Hinchley

Amy Griffiths

Megan Placito

Sasha Frost

Nigel Anthony

Lloyd Hutchinson

Gwen Currant

Robbie O'Neill

Cee Howeson

James Craven

Hannah Brownlie

Caroline Hunt

Marianne Elliott

Bern Collaço

Olivia Edwards

Lainey Shaw

Dan Ball

Tamlyn Henderson

Jimmy Gorniak

Carl Sykes

Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Beatriz Levin

Emily Bilverstone

Raynor Winn

Lloyd Levin

Elizabeth Karlsen

Nicholas Sidi

Thorsten Schumacher

Hélène Louvart

Peter Hampden

Stephen Woolley

Christina Moore

Matthew Price

Norman Merry

Dixie Chassay

Kristin Irving

Chris Roe

Drama

The Salt Path

RocketScience

Black Bear Pictures

Number 9 Films

Elliott & Harper Productions

Shadowplay Features

BBC Film

Lipsync Productions

United Kingdom

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Faced with losing their business, their farmhouse and their children to university, married Ray (Gillian Anderson) and husband Moth (Jason Isaacs) are down to their last few hundred quid and decide to go for a walk. A very, very, long walk - along England’s south west coast towards Land’s End. Armed with only a rucksack each, they set off along the rugged coastline and along the way we learn a little about what caused their predicament, about him suffering from the debilitating CBD, and about what makes this couple tick as despite them living and sleeping rough, blagging what food they can and him getting mistaken for a famous local celebrity, they seem to be, and wish to remain, almost magnetically joined together. It’s a simple story that is rich in character with which both Anderson and Isaacs delivering amiably and sometimes quite poignantly. As they trek, we also get a chance to enjoy some of the spectacular scenery of this windswept part of the country and those locales provide for a few moments of (tea-time) peril, some gentle banter and some of that life-affirming stuff that is often delivered in barrels but here a little more subtly and characterfully. It’s all based on a true journey and she took part in the production so it has a sense of authenticity to it, and it makes you think a little along the lines of “there but for the grace of God” as real, ordinary, people take adversity by the scruff of the neck. It doesn’t really need a cinema, but a bit like “The Last Bus” (2021) is one of those British dramas that works.