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Sorry We Missed You

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Critics Consensus

Sorry We Missed You may strike some as tending toward the righteously didactic, but director Ken Loach's passionate approach remains effective.

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Charles Bramesco Vox 04/30/2020
Loach's film does the work of putting their theories into practice, showing how policy decisions made in isolation ripple out into tragedy once they're enacted. Go to Full Review
Ty Burr Boston Globe 04/05/2020
3/4
"Sorry We Missed You" depicts the vise into which many people are forced to put head, hearts, and lives in order to pay the rent and feed their families. Go to Full Review
Ann Hornaday Washington Post 04/02/2020
3/4
This absorbing and ultimately shattering portrayal of the costs of a late-capitalist system obsessed with convenience, efficiency and nanosecond precision couldn't be more timely. Go to Full Review
Eddie Harrison film-authority.com 06/10/2025
4/5
..a vivid, no-hold-barred portrait of a family who’ll do anything to survive in an economic tsunami fuelled by self-interest... Go to Full Review
Paul Kanieski KSQD Community Radio 07/24/2023
Sorry We Missed You is social conscious filmmaking at its finest. Its empathetic portrayal of the never-ending Sisyphean struggle the less fortunate must endure simply to survive make it a clarion call for change. Go to Full Review
Jane Freebury The Canberra Times (Australia) 08/18/2022
3/5
Sorry We Missed You has that blunt urgency Loach often displays, but his actors are very good, and with this forensic job on the system, he has made his point. Go to Full Review
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acsdoug D @acsdoug 06/16/2025 Loach's films are hit or miss with me. This one is a nit, although the amount of trouble he rains down on this family strains credulity. See more Les N @Vegas628 11/27/2024 Quite depressing. If you are having trouble then don't watch it. See more isla s @RT89656869 09/03/2022 This is another hard hitting Ken Loach British social commentary type drama. It goes without saying its quite sobering and doesn't hide away from the many flaws of the system its focussing on (the so called 'gig economy'). The characters are pretty well developed and I liked seeing how the husband and wife struggle in their own jobs, their own circumstances, mostly quite isolated in their own ways, trying to work around the situations they find themselves in. It'd be hard not to feel sorry for the family depicted, to one extent or another, certainly. Its reasonably thought provoking, although of course its hardly a cheery film but neither should it be. This is worth a watch if it sounds of interest, so I'd recommend it, yes. See more andrea c @Charst 08/27/2021 Ken Loach si esibisce in un intenso dramma di ordinarietà che analizza con fredda lucidità il mondo del precariato in Inghilterra e le assurde condizioni contrattuali a cui è sottoposta una famiglia del ceto operaio. Il profilo del figlio maggiore è quello meno riuscito, più forzato e sicuramente meno interessanti con le solite ribellioni adolescenziali. Il finale inoltre non lascia particolarmente soddisfatti; comprensibile una "non chiusura" in segno della vita ordinaria che continua, ma la situazione che si era creata e che viene lasciata in sospeso, non chiude il cerchio come dovrebbe. See more martona t @RT52717972 06/04/2021 An incredibly touching story of a fight to survive in a cruel and hopeless system. An important voice today. See more 05/18/2021 My favorite Ken Loach's film so far. With no visual or narrative tricks director and cast are able to bring audiences into this social realistic film about -dramatization- modern slavery. This is not a film about poor people, is about people losing dignity. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Director
Ken Loach
Producer
Rebecca O'Brien
Screenwriter
Paul Laverty
Distributor
Zeitgeist Films
Production Co
BBC Films, Sixteen Films
Genre
Drama
Original Language
British English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 6, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 12, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA)
$28.3K
Runtime
1h 40m