Ethel & Ernest

2016

1h 34m

Drama

Animation

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97%

35 Reviews

Tomatometer

87%

100+ Ratings

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A couple's love blossoms and endures through immense social change in the 20th century. One love, 40 years, and always a cup of tea.

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Critics Consensus

Gentle, poignant, and vividly animated, Ethel & Ernest is a warm character study with an evocative sense of time and place.

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John J

An actual Phenomenal Movie. This movie is actually great and I 100% recommend you watch it. Ethel & Ernest is one of the sweetest movie I've watched, but it's also very gut wrenching. This actually gets very sad at the end. It is slow, but trust me that you won't regret watching this. This is definitely going on my favorite movie list.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/04/23

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michael m

I thought the characters (although in cartoon form) were very believable the voices were excellent and the storyline very moving. I had to view from beginning to end although I only put it on to watch in between programmes. Well done to all concerned on this production

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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R. C

forget about all the hopeless films that are churned out on a daily basis, this film works on every level, i stumbled across it half way though, then re-watched it from the start..so forget about the cheesy blockbuster, bums on seats films, and dive into this honest production..

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/15/22

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Audience Member

Just 1 year younger than the author, never evacuated, I grew up 200yds away in Southfields SW18 (the constituency border ran down the middle of Revelstoke Road). Before the electric van featured in the film, the milkman came round with a horse drawn milk float, not on foot. One day in 1946, a milkman's horse bolted in Astonville Street and ended up in the sweetshop opposite in Revelstoke Road. The bomb damage featured in the film might have been in Stuart Road, the next parallel road, other references elsewhere might suggest this was a V1 'doodle bug', but I was never made aware of this, and the site was only a site of perhaps 4 demolished houses. As lads in SW18 we went regularly every 3 weeks to the barbers in Durnsford Road, and rather than 'want' a pair of boots, we refused to wear them. Out of after school earnings, as delivery boy/paperround, we had motorbikes (long before the term 'mods and rockers') and would meet at the top of Revelstoke Road outside the park gates, to admire other riders readily available old bikes we could buy. Should someone with long hair have riden up on a Lamberta, we would have considered this 'infra dig'. Up to a point I enjoyed the film, but living in Southfields (the grid) during the 1940/50s was distinctly different to be living in Ashen Grove, the Avenues or Roads of Wimbledon Park (just the other side of Revelstoke Road).

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Audience Member

Completamente apaixonada pelo romance Ethel & Ernest, Como o próprio autor do romance e filho do casal, Raymond Briggs, descreveu não é nada marcante na relação de ambos, entretanto é tudo simplesmente apaixonante, intensamente significante e sincero, além de presenciarmos o progresso e evolução da sociedade...

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Audience Member

A truly lovely animated film, from the creator of The Snowman

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Roger Mainwood

Director

Camilla Deakin

Director

Ruth Fielding

Director

Brenda Blethyn

Ethel Briggs

Jim Broadbent

Ernest Briggs

Pam Ferris

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

The care and affection with which Mainwood and his collaborators (notably animation director Peter Dodd and art director Robin Shaw) adapt already endearing material carries the day.

Dec 18, 2017

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Michael Rechtshaffen

Los Angeles Times

Their unassuming story speaks volumes about the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit.

Dec 14, 2017

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Cath Clarke

Time Out

Butter a crumpet and snuggle down with this affectionate animation about illustrator Raymond Briggs's parents.

Rated: 4/5

Dec 7, 2017

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Katie Smith-Wong

Flick Feast

Ethel & Ernest is lovely, heartwarming and poignant animation.

Rated: 3.5/5

Nov 13, 2019

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Rachel Wagner

rachelsreviews.net

If you are looking for something to brighten your day and make you feel hopeful than give Ethel & Ernest a watch.

Rated: A-

Mar 13, 2019

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Alexa Dalby

Dog and Wolf

[Briggs'] unique style of homeliness with an edge, ordinary lives charged with political content, told with quiet humour, has reached its highest point so far in the deeply affecting Ethel and Ernest and is another classic in the making.

Rated: 5/5

Feb 19, 2019

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Synopsis

A couple's love blossoms and endures through immense social change in the 20th century. One love, 40 years, and always a cup of tea.

Director: Roger Mainwood, Camilla Deakin, Ruth Fielding
Producer: Raymond Briggs, Robert Little, Adam Partridge, Jon Rennie
Screenwriter: Roger Mainwood
Genre: Drama, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 17, 2018
Runtime: 1h 34m

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