Judi Dench

Steve Coogan

Sophie Kennedy Clark

Mare Winningham

Barbara Jefford

Ruth McCabe

Peter Hermann

Sean Mahon

Anna Maxwell Martin

Michelle Fairley

Wunmi Mosaku

Amy McAllister

Charlie Murphy

Cathy Belton

Kate Fleetwood

Charissa Shearer

Nika McGuigan

Rachel Wilcock

Rita Hamill

Tadhg Bowen

Saoirse Bowen

Harrison D'Ampney

D.J. McGrath

Simone Lahbib

Sara Stewart

Gary Lilburn

Charles Edwards

Nicholas Jones

Paris Arrowsmith

Marie Jones

Frankie McCafferty

Vaughn Johseph

George Fisher

Jordan King

Amber Batty

Martin Glyn Murray

Florence Keith-Roach

George Michael Rados

Elliot Levey

Timothy Paul Jobe

Roxanne Gregory

Jon Wennington

Norma Webb

Rachael Tate

Leo Davis

Jay Price

Peter Owen

Mark Appleby

Carol S. Federman

Glen Gathard

Peter Burgis

Lydia Bensimmon

Leslie McDonald

Harry Platford

Lucy Friend

Lissy Holm

Chris Burdon

Nick Kray

James Hyde

Doug Cooper

Kathryn Fa

Sue Harding

Derek Trigg

Naomi Donne

Barbara Herman-Skelding

Tracey Seaward

Robbie Ryan

Alan MacDonald

Stephen Frears

Gabrielle Tana

Valerio Bonelli

Sarah Bicknell

Jeff Pope

Cameron McCracken

François Ivernel

Christine Langan

Alexandre Desplat

Carolyn Marks Blackwood

Henry Normal

Consolata Boyle

Martin Sixsmith

Bradley Porter

Kevin Day

Rod McLean

Drama

Philomena

Baby Cow Productions

BBC Film

Magnolia Mae Films

Pathé

France

United Kingdom

With all confidence, the story of the movie is undoubtedly wonderful, and it was exciting and passionate to follow it until the end, but I did not find the dramatic and emotional sense of the mother. I did not find that she really lost her son, but the feelings were mixed. The feelings and sense of losing the son could have been put in the right way better than this.

There was no strong flashback showing the mother's life from her son. It was very useless. There are many hilarious moments and a banter link that extended to the end of the movie, which spoiled the drama of the story. I feel that the true feelings of the mother and her son, who was lost and never saw his real mother, should have been respected.

Judi Dench was the reason I watched the movie. Her performance was wonderful in mixing her different emotions and feelings, sometimes she laughs, sometimes she cries, and sometimes she forgives. She really made a true story.