Sorry We Missed You

2019 Directed by Ken Loach

From the Director of I Daniel Blake (Ken Loach) comes another hard hitting dose of reality. Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.

Kris Hitchen Debbie Honeywood Rhys Stone Katie Proctor Ross Brewster Charlie Richmond Julian Ions Sheila Dunkerley Maxie Peters Christopher-John Slater Heather Wood Alberto Dumba Natalia Stonebanks Jordan Collard Dave Turner Stephen Clegg Nikki Marshall Darren Jones Linda E. Greenwood Mark Birch Mark Burns Vicky Hall Harriet Ghost

Alternative Titles

对不起，错过你, 미안해요, 리키, 쏘리 위 미스드 유, 抱歉我们错过你了

drama

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Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★★½ 7

I’m definitely checking out everything Ken Loach has done, starting with Kes. This was tragic and the saddest part is how real it is. The way it covers the fear and depressing aspects of literally normal people is...so smart, I am not doing it justice. Too many thoughts!
Review by Allison M. ★★★★★ 8

Cannes 2019
Film #9
“Who cares.” - Seb’s notebook
Sorry We Missed You is a punch to the emotional gut. It follows a family in a tight economic situation that becomes more and more dire. The father works for an Amazon-type of company that considers him self-employed; he has no benefits, but carries all of the risks. The mother is an underpaid caretaker and is a true softie. The teenage son gets into trouble with his parents gone and the adolescent daughter takes selfies with her cereal.
Ken Loach’s film doesn’t have stars or a big budget. It only has an immense heart. And that goes a long, long, long, long way. It’s hands down the best film of the festival so far and it will be hard for anything else to top it.
Rating: 9/10
Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★½

you know it’s a heavy one when you and the fam sit through the whole credits not speaking to each other...... so real and honest, this one hits hard 😔
Review by Mark Cunliffe 🌹 ★★★★½ 16

"Let’s get the cardboard off the concrete!"
Ken Loach's follow up to I, Daniel Blake is initially something of a slow burn affair as we are introduced to the family unit at the film's heart and the alarming practices and pitfalls of freelance, zero-hour contracted 'service economy' of in-home carers and parcel delivery drivers. But when the storyline comes together and this family reach breaking point, Loach delivers a veritable gut punch to audiences, the ramifications of which will bruise the mind for some time to come.
Ricky (Kris Hitchen) and Abbie (Debbie Honeywood) are a loving couple with two children Seb (Rhys Stone) and Liza Jane (Katie Procter). Thanks to the global economic crash in 2008 (y'know, the one…
Review by ethan ★★★★★

ha ha dont mean to be political but actually FUCK CAPITALISM
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 8

Hoop-tober (hopefully), #13:
Ken & Robbie may be one of the finest cinematographic/directorial duos working today. Incessantly and intensely brutal in its realism, and all the more frighteningly mirrorical due to the nature of its “awful” authenticity. This is what our industrial complex of a civilization has become and, as John Darnielle might say, we’re all, unfortunately, cows... just making the best out of the worst, for as long as we possibly can. I never thought, as a child, that life would merely become an endless series of 12+ hour workdays, but alas. If we want to pay our bills, and our rent, we have no choice. This isn’t how it should be, but it is; capitalism is wonderful, isn’t it?…

Recent reviews

Review by Salma ★★★

i said it once and i’ll say it again: fuck capitalism, fuck the exploitation of workers, fuck the exploitation of people in need and fuck that company.
*saw at zawya
Review by Kristen Fujimoto ★★★½

Yet again, Ken Loach has stolen my tears.
Review by Steve Erickson ★★½ 2

I generally admire Loach, but this is one of his worst films. Picture a Labour Party MP attempting to write an '80s TV movie of the week, with all the cliches, awkward melodrama and implicit cultural conservatism intact while trying to push its politics to the left. TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT is the film this wants to be.
Full review coming early next month.
Review by Jake ★★★★★

Give Ken Loach the respect he deserves.
Review by tmn96 ★★★★

Ken Loach macht Filme, die man in der Regel erst einmal Sacken lassen muss. Nicht wegen eindrucksvollen Bildern, herausragendem Schauspiel oder einem besonders gut geschriebenen Drehbuch. Nein es sind vor allem die Inhalte und die Art und Weise der Vermittlung dieser die Loachs Filme so Sehenswert machen. SORRY WE MISSED YOU besitzt eine Dringlichkeit die mir als Zuschauer immer wieder den Atem nimmt. Das Schicksal rund um Ricky Turner und seiner Familie ist dramatisch ohne überzuinszenieren, vielschichtig ohne inhaltlich zu überfordern, hoffnungslos ohne es zu übertreiben und dabei vor allem immer eins: ganz nah am Zuschauer. Die Geschichte wirkt zu keiner Sekunde Inszeniert oder Unrealistisch. Alles fügt sich plausibel in das Gesamtgefüge ein. Dabei gelingt Loach sogar die Kunst teils…
Review by Max ★★★★

mal wieder ein schlag in die fresse von ken loach
Review by Sara ★★★½

Ken loach digs deep into his characters like no other by finding their reasons, their motives, their hopes and what can kill them
Review by Ronaldo ★★½

Esse foi um filme que foi me ganhando bem lentamente.
Os primeiros dez minutos são uma martelada na cabeça com diálogos expositivos que envolviam regras e matemática e... Eu nem sei ainda quem são essas pessoas e você vem me estabelecer o sistema? E se a justificativa for de que isto acontece para sentirmos as coisas tal como nossos protagonistas sentem, então me permita apontar essa justificativa como sendo bem pobre, porque não quero acreditar que o realizador realmente se utilizou da ferramenta narrativa para se aliar - nesse início de filme - ao sistema opressor que ele deseja criticar no decorrer do longa.
Outra coisa que me incomodou foi essa confusão de foco. Em um primeiro momento parece que…
Review by Rommel Cuellar ★★★★

A mensagem desse filme é muito importante. É necessária. E Ken passa a mensagem como ninguém. Simples e funciona.