Astronaut

Winner: National Film Awards UK - Best Director

• "I thoroughly enjoyed it... Driven by a wonderful performance" - Screenjabber, Tom Beasley & Stuart O'Connor
  
• "Astronaut is a heart-warming, feel-good tale" - Franglais27, Latoya Austin
  
• "What’s key here is how exceptional Dreyfuss is when he’s given his moment, to explore, to fight for something. Every little look and expression comes across as wonderfully as it ever did. Those little side-smiles and charm shine through, alongside genuine fragility in moments of tenderness" - Critical Popcorn, Dan Bullock
  
• "Dreyfuss’s face speaks volumes. Because he is a consummate screen actor and perfect casting, bringing as he does both dry humour and warmth to the role while making us share his belief in his dream" - Close up Film, Caroline Allen
  
• "Amid the pressures of the current crisis, we could all use some uplifting, unchallenging, bittersweet sentimentality. That’s exactly what’s on offer from Astronaut" - The Observer, Mark Kermode / Film of the Week
  
• "Dreyfuss commits to every scene and the bit where Angus, hoping to win a place on the spacecraft, is interviewed live on TV is out-of-this-world tense" - Evening Standard, Charlotte O'Sullivan
  
• "A likable performance by Richard Dreyfuss livens up this easygoing drama about second chances and late-life adventure from actor-turned-director Shelagh McLeod" - The Guardian, Cath Clarke
  
• "Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss shoots for the stars again in writer-director Shelagh McLeod's modest directorial debut, a sweet and moving character study about a widower with a failing heart, who is gifted an outlandish chance to become the first commercial passenger in space" - The Irish News, Film of the Week / Damon Smith
  

 

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