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Best Interests

Best Interests


Séries Mania 2023

International Competition

World premiere
Society - Drama - Family | United Kingdom | 2022

Screened episode(s) : 1,2
Format : 4 x 58min

🏆 The Best Actor Award in International Competition went to Michael SHEEN

This is the story of a family driven apart by having to make choices no parent would ever want to make. Andrew and Nicci’s daughter, Marnie, has a life-threatening condition. The doctors believe it is in her best interests to be allowed to die, but her loving family disagrees. And so begins a fight that will take them through every stage of a legal process, as they struggle to contemplate this huge decision. Who decides? And in whose best interests will it be?

Our take

Cette série très touchante traite de sujets clivants au cœur des débats actuels en France : la prise en charge du handicap et les questions éthiques de la fin de vie assistée. Des questions complexes posées avec beaucoup d’écoute et d’humanité via les dilemmes très concrets d’une famille touchée par la maladie. Écrite par l’immense Jack Thorne (Enola Holmes, The Virtues, Harry Potter et l’enfant maudit, The Eddy, This is England, Skins…) et interprétée par Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters, This Way Up, Catastrophe) et Michael Sheen (Good Omens, Prodigal Son, Masters of Sex…).

Pour découvrir l’interview exclusive de Jack Thorne, cliquez juste ici.

  • Created By Jack THORNE
  • Written By Jack THORNE
  • Directed By Michael KEILOR
  • Music Stephen RENNICKS
  • With Sharon HORGAN, Michael SHEEN, Alison OLIVER, Niamh MORIARTY, Noma DUMEZWENI, Chizzy AKUDOLU, Des MCALEER, Mat FRASER, Gary BEADLE, Jack MORRIS, Pippa HAYWOOD, Shane ZAZA
  • Production Chapter One Pictures, Fifth Season
  • Broadcaster Bbc One
  • International sales Fifth Season

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