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Certificate 12A

Cast Colin Firth Julianne Moore Matthew Goode Nicholas Hoult

Directors Tom Ford

Screenwriters Tom Ford

Running Time 101 minutes

A Single Man
Oscar contending performance from Mr. Firth in Tom Ford's directorial debut.

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Plot
Los Angeles, 1962. Ex-pat college professor George Falconer (Firth) is haunted by the death of Jim (Goode), his soulmate of 16 years, in a car crash. Over the course of one day, he listens to his colleagues’ banter about the Cuban Missile Crisis, gets drunk with old friend Charley (Moore), and receives advances from student Kenny (Hoult) — all the while fastidiously planning his death.

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