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Goodbye June

38 replies

stolenpromises · 26/12/2025 11:30

I’ve watched this morning. What a lovely film. Helen Mirren, Timothy Spall and Kate Winslet who also directs. The kids in it are fabulous. Worth a watch but you will need your tissues.

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GammonAndEgg · 26/12/2025 12:07

What a beautiful, beautiful film.

Dearg · 26/12/2025 12:08

Thanks for the review. I saw Kate Winslet talking about it on Graham Norton, but couldn’t persuade DH to watch it. Will watch it on my own. Thanks.

HipHopDontYouStop · 26/12/2025 13:10

I just didn’t find it a good film at all. Didn’t provoke any emotion and I usually love a good blubber at films.

Didn’t like any of the characters. All annoying. None of them made me care.

Spall is miscast as Mirren’s husband.

Mary46 · 26/12/2025 16:27

Loved it too

Miltonv · 26/12/2025 22:29

I thought it was ok. Nothing special. The acting was good though.

coleslaws · 26/12/2025 22:30

The promo photo on Netflix looks just sad and miserable and it’s put me off watching

Slovenlyandblubbing · 26/12/2025 22:30

I posted a thread on this on Telly Addicts earlier. I too loved it (and cried a LOT!!). Yes it was fairly predictable, but also very raw and beautiful.

however, it seems like it’s a love it or hate it kind of movie

Ministerofmumbles · 27/12/2025 10:29

HipHopDontYouStop · 26/12/2025 13:10

I just didn’t find it a good film at all. Didn’t provoke any emotion and I usually love a good blubber at films.

Didn’t like any of the characters. All annoying. None of them made me care.

Spall is miscast as Mirren’s husband.

I have to agree. It wasn’t the casting for me but just how strange the characters were, I couldn’t actually imagine them all being raised in the same family as they were all so very different - too much so, and the Dad was just awful. It was at that point when they were focusing on him that my attention started to wander and I wanted it to hurry up and finish.

That’s not to say that it didn’t have it’s more tender moments, I thought the brother was great, as was the sister played by Kate but overall it was for me it was just ok.

Christmaseree · 28/12/2025 12:42

I didn’t think it was very good, I rate it 5/10.

Chickcheryl · 28/12/2025 17:54

Dignified,wonderful palletive care based on true story written by Kate Winsletts son.Only brought it home how everyone has a right to the death they wish.Unfortunetly its far from truth unless you pay.

Davros · 28/12/2025 18:21

Thank you for mentioning the palliative care factor and giving me a warning. I won’t be watching

confusedctf · 28/12/2025 20:38

I watched this as we know the little boy in it. It's great in many ways
But I found it difficult to watch due to the fact she is dying of cancer. Had all that in my own family and really don't want to be watching it on TV. So for me it was a real struggle to watch. But wanted to see the boy we know and he was adorable in it!

LovesLabradors · 28/12/2025 21:08

I watched it today - on my own thankfully because I cried buckets. I thought it was a lovely movie.
It deeply affected me as I lost my Mum to cancer just after Christmas. Funnily enough, one of my sisters was pregnant with a child we knew our mum would never meet too - so extra poignant.
I wish her hospital care had been akin to June's - there were a few "Angels" but she also had some bad, possibly negligent, care at times. Some of the nurses were wonderful, but some were rough and uncaring, and I had to intervene a couple of times to ask them to be gentle with her - it worried me how she might have been treated when one of the family wasn't there.
She died in Jan 23. Nearly 3 years on, I can just about bear to watch this. The reality isn't quite as cosy as the movie, but then it never is. We were all with my Mum at the end, and I was holding her hand - and we had none of the fallings out that June's family had.

polid · 29/12/2025 10:43

watched it and it’s very well made and acted but having been with a couple of relatives in end of life care, was massively irritated by the romanticised disney version of palliative care in this film.

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 29/12/2025 10:47

We watched it last night - I found the sibling dynamics interesting but thought the father character was too annoying. I tuned out at the bit when he did karaoke, then didn’t really get back on board. I actually missed the end because I went to make a cup of tea and didn’t bother to pause it.

Motnight · 29/12/2025 10:56

I watched this yesterday. Thought that everyone acted well but that the (predictable) storyline and 2 dimensional characters let it down.

mugglewump · 29/12/2025 11:07

A beautiful film that made me cry, perhaps because of personal experience (my mum died of cancer many years ago). I disagree about the unlikely characters. Of course, they are all exaggerated, but the film brilliantly portrays how different people handle grief (or not handle it in the case of Dad). Anyone who has been in that situation knows how different family members fight over how a loved one is cared for, but ultimately, are pulled back together through loss. I think the whole thing was very well done.

AdoreTheChaos · 29/12/2025 11:19

I thought Timothy Spall was excellent, the father and husband, selfish used to having everything done for him and is in denial about what is happening. Then he’s son has a word and the change in his character and the relationship with his son I thought was beautiful. The karaoke had me in tears, totally from the heart. The sisters relationship was dealt with well too. I imagine most people could relate to one of the family members and how they were approaching the news of the impending bereavement. The children were a joy to watch as they didn’t even appear to be acting. Enjoyed I wouldn’t say is the right word but I’m so glad that I watched it.

Alexadidzammomarryjackie · 29/12/2025 11:24

I watched to the end but not sure why I stuck it out. My mum died of cancer and her experience was very different, her final weeks were brutal and June's were much more sanitised (ime). I didn't really see the point of the film and didn't enjoy it.

Malariahilaria · 29/12/2025 20:03

I liked it to start with but as it went on I found the father utterly vile to the point where I was fast forwarding any scene with him talking and I normally like Timothy Spall. The younger sister was so unpleasant that it was then unrealistic how quickly they all made up. I wanted to like this but like a pp I'd give it 5 out of 10. Great acting from Kate W as always though.

DominoLover51 · 29/12/2025 22:30

A beautiful film. Very poignant for me as both my parents died of cancer. Certain bits really hit me, when the Sister looked after June’s wedding ring when it no longer fit. I got my Dad’s ring resized a couple of days before he died and was able to put it back on for him. Also when Connor reads to his Mum, my Dad was an author and loved being read to in his final months/weeks/days l, both his own work and other favourites, although my Sister did much more reading to him than I did. I loved the different characters and dynamics

foxlover47 · 29/12/2025 22:31

Watched it last night . Loved nurse angel

purpleme12 · 31/12/2025 18:03

Can't watch this subject matter 😢

Davros · 31/12/2025 22:26

purpleme12 · 31/12/2025 18:03

Can't watch this subject matter 😢

Me too. I’ve had cancer twice. It’s not for me

MrsLizzieDarcy · 31/12/2025 22:33

My Dad died from cancer, and his last weeks of life were so far removed from this film (we watched it earlier this evening). My Dad went from a hospice with a 3 to 6 month prognosis to die 21 days later in a "nursing" home, mainly I'm convinced from medical neglect. 48 hours before his death, I was screaming at people on the phone to get him pain relief while he was screaming like an animal in the background. The nurses in that nursing home were beyond dispassionate - they simply didn't care that Dad needed drugs outside of their allocated drug rounds. And they weren't worthy of their professional titles.

It made me unreasonably angry to see palliative care so disneyfied. And it concerns me that films like this will be taken as examples of palliative care and used as a weapon against the assisted dying bill.