What would you do if you could go back and visit a lost loved one? Or have conversations with them years after they have passed. While working on his current book, Adam (Andrew Scott) a writer in London makes trips back to his childhood home to have conversations with his parents about his life and spark some inspiration for his next novel.
All of Us Strangers focuses on Adam’s journey and other complicated things that are happening in his life around him. Living in one of two occupied flats in a new structure in London, he befriends his neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal) after a fumbled introduction. The two men quickly become friends and more while Adam continues to work on his book, and disappear to his childhood home for more time with his parents that he never got as a child.
The story seems pretty straightforward forward but almost every element of the movie isn’t exactly what it seems and will have you question what exactly is going on. Is Adam actually seeing his parents? Or is there someone else living in his childhood home? What exactly is happening with Harry? Do the men really know what is going on the whole time as well? The movie will take you on a journey and back again, with a lot of twists along the way.
All of Us Strangers is really nothing like you would expect. It’s heartfelt, it’s dark, it’s moody and it stays with you long after you leave the theater. It will make you question just what happened to who and when in the movie. But it will also have you questioning what you would do if you could go back in time and talk to who you missed the most. It’s a deep movie that brings with it a deeper message. It quickly may become one of your favorite movies of the year and requires at least a rewatch to see what other details you may have missed along the way.
All of Us Strangers will be in theaters in the US on December 22nd, and in the UK on January 26th, 2024.
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About All of Us Strangers:
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.
Directed by Andrew Haigh
Starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, and Claire Foy