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New Century. New Rules.

Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss and best friend Benedict Baron (Michael Gambon) dies suddenly, leaving behind him an inexplicable file, threatening the stability of the organization. Meanwhile, a seemingly chance encounter with Johnny's striking next-door neighbor and political activist Nancy Pierpan (Rachel Weisz) seems too good to be true. Johnny is forced to walk out of his job, and then out of his identity to find out the truth. Set in London and Cambridge, PAGE EIGHT is a contemporary spy film for the BBC, which addresses intelligence issues and moral dilemmas peculiar to the new century.

Ralph Fiennes Rachel Weisz Bill Nighy Michael Gambon Felicity Jones Tom Hughes Judy Davis Rakhee Thakrar Saskia Reeves Ewen Bremner Marthe Keller Richard Lintern Holly Aird Alice Krige Kate Burdette Aisling Loftus

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mystery drama thriller

99 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Keith

    Review by Keith ★★★

    Quite suspenseful, tho drags a little from time to time.

  • ZapperLife

    Review by ZapperLife ★★★½

    With a cast lining up names like Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon and Felicity Jones, to mention just a few, I was always going to watch this sooner or later. For a made for TV-movie (even if it is BBC), that's nothing short of an impressive line up.

    It's made in the same mold as the old spy-thrillers dipping into politics, lies and betrayals; it's slow, it's filled with revealing lies through conversations and discoveries, and it's very well acted. It's an acquired taste I'm sure, but then again I acquired it a long time ago.

    It lacks the kind of atmosphere and tension seen recently in Alfredsson's adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, but that's not saying it…

  • Alberto Monroy

    Review by Alberto Monroy ★★★

    Publiqué el 05/12/2011:

    Pues vamos a darle una oportunidad a "Page eight" (Hare, 2011)...
    t.co/TLh5ZIMH
    2011-12-05 01:02:56 (EST)

    Nada mal "Page eight", los británicos tienen un gusto especial por los juegos de espionaje desplegados desde el interior de sus personajes
    2011-12-05 03:22:13 (EST)

  • vgeorgie

    Review by vgeorgie ★★★

    Excellent cast, if a bit too slow at times.

  • Steve Robinson

    Review by Steve Robinson ★★★★★

    TV movies rarely get the credit they deserve. This BBC movie was up for bag loads of awards and I'm pretty certain it got grossly overlooked. Bill nighy, Rachel Weisz and Michael Gambon are all amazing in this British spy drama where the truth is rarely valued and everyone has something to hide.

    What makes this so different from other Brit spy dramas is the acting and directing. This is a film about people questioning each other and trying to find the truth. When you watch you will see that all characters maintain tight eye contact in all pivotal scenes. In this we can see the truth in the characters eyes through the lies that they speak. An amazing tact and it pushes this to the next level.

    Bill nighy is on paper saying he wants to do more...and so do I!!!! Come on BBC...step up.

  • Thirdi Canggi

    Review by Thirdi Canggi ★★★½

    It's a semi-anti-James Bond film. There's still the girl in it.

  • Carl Ingebretsen

    Review by Carl Ingebretsen ★★

    69th film of The December Project

    Every actor does his or her best with the material, but that’s not much of a help when the material’s at fault. It’s an alright spy story, but it’s not clever or interesting or exciting, not even suspenseful; everything is as it seems, there are nearly no twists (and the few in it are easy to see coming) and it seems to just be going through the motions instead of actually having fun or creating suspense.

    Bit of a shame really, as the British usually do these very well - especially with a cast like this.

  • Todd Willcox

    Review by Todd Willcox ★★★★

    What a terrific cast -- Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Judy Davis, and Michael Gambon among others. It tells the story of MI5 operatives, operatives who sit behind desks, who are introduced to a potentially organization-shattering document of which "page eight" contains a proverbial smoking gun. It's one of those spy stories that it seems only the British really tell well -- ones that require no "in the field" work but is still incredibly dramatic despite action/adventure sequences. It's one of the those stories where neither the audience nor the characters know who they can trust, even those who have trusted each other for years. The performances are ultimately better than the script, but the script is still interesting and had me from the first minute to the last. I won't give anything away as I'd like everyone to see it. Oh, and it's directed by the great David Hare, making it even more watchable.

  • Alistair Stewart

    Review by Alistair Stewart ★★★★

    A brilliantly convincing performance by Bill Nighy in an intelligent, subtle, perhaps rather low key, but ultimately very enjoyable political/ spy drama.