Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Anna Maxwell Martin, Sophie Kennedy Clark (young Philomena), Mare Winningham (not Jessica Hynes as we thought), and as the nasty old nun Barbara Jefford, who was the voice of Tatiana in from Russia with Love and who we've most recently seen in The Deep Blue Sea.
I'm not a huge fan of Frears, whose films seem to me streaked with cruelty, but this is his best - written and shot (Robbie Ryan) like a thriller, which it sort of is - a good choice. And Coogan is right to inject humour, which in no way dissipates the material.
Alexandre Desplat wrote the music and Valerio Bonelli (Cemetery Junction) edited it
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