Third Star

Third Star is a 2010 British drama film directed by Hattie Dalton and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, JJ Feild, Tom Burke, Adam Robertson, and Hugh Bonneville. It premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in June 2010, where it was shown as the closing film, and was released in the United Kingdom onMay 2011.

Davy is a kind, loyal and responsible soul who has been unemployed and helping Jamess family take care of him for quite a while already. Bill is boisterous and funloving, and everybody hopes he is finally getting around to breaking up with his oppressive girlfriend. Miles, lately absent from Jamess life, is a handsome intellectual turned into a businessman and the son of a successful novelist who died, also of cancer, when Miles was a child. Jamess and Miless friendship used to be very close and has always bordered on rivalry, particularly as aspiring writers. James is too weak to walk much any more, so he mostly sits in a special cart and needs a lot of very practical and physical help from his companions, in addition to liquid morphine and other medications at increasing frequency to manage his chronic pain and other symptoms. Having been ill for years already, he seems to be at peace with his rapidly approaching death and takes childlike delight in everything this last journey has to offer. However, his failing strength and increasing discomfort and outright pain also bring out his bitterness in the knowledge that his life will be over before he ever had time to make anything much of it.Traveling over the rugged and isolated coastal terrain, the young men fool around having lighthearted, juvenile fun to give James the time of his life. They also encounter various odd persons and situations and are faced with a series of setbacks and accidents, including loss of various supplies and finally the cart. Everyones nerves and patience are sorely tested by Jamess outbursts at each of his friends in turn out partly of premeditation and partly of spontaneous paininduced anger, he seems to attempt to shake them out of mediocrity, settling for things and excessive unselfishness and into making what they actually want out of the lives they still have ahead. Davy is mortified by Jamess observations Bill reveals that his girlfriend is pregnant and while he knows that they are

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