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    ‘I WAS REALLY DEEPLY MOVED EVERY DAY’

    Jul 12, 2021 5 minutes
    Words: Adrian Lobb

    Special made it the most emotional role he’s ever played.

    Nowhere Special is a film that gets you right in the heart. A simple, stark story of a man diagnosed with a terminal illness desperately searching for the perfect family to adopt his young son.

    The perfect family, of course, does not exist. Window-cleaner John’s quest here, just like in his day job, is doomed to fail. Windows are never entirely spotless; no person or family will ever be quite perfect enough for the son he is raising alone and dotes on.

    But it occupies his mind, gives him a sense of mission, allows him an element of control over at least one part of the future he won’t live to see as he feels control over his body and life

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