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Morvern Callar

6.7(199)20021h 37m2

After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$869.8K
Language
Spanish
  • suicide
  • spain
  • based on novel or book
  • supermarket
  • scotland
  • best friend
  • writer
  • woman director

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Lynne Ramsay

Produced in

United Kingdom, Canada

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereChicago International Film Festival16 Oct 2002
    • Theatrical (limited)R20 Dec 2002
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical151 Nov 2002
    • TVBBC Two7 Mar 2004
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereToronto International Film Festival6 Sept 2002
  • FinlandFI

    • PhysicalK-181 Nov 2002
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereCannes Film Festival19 May 2002
    • Theatrical5 Mar 2003
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical151 Nov 2002
  • JapanJP

    • Theatrical8 Mar 2003

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Morvern Callar was released on 1 November 2002.

Audience reviews

2
  • C

    CinemaSerf

    9/3/2023

    5/10

    Samantha Morton is the eponymous, bored, supermarket check out girl whose boyfriend commits suicide. She hides his body, takes his money - and a book that he had recently completed and along with her best friend, sets off on some travels. Initially around a wet and windy Scotland before heading to Spain for some fun. My issue with this rather dreary introspective is that neither she, nor her pal interested me in the …

  • B

    badelf

    2/28/2026

    10/10

    This isn't a movie about some girl who needs to be in a relationship, or who just wants to party. This is a movie about grief. Trust me when I say that no two people in this world of eight billion will handle grief in exactly the same way. Even in one's lifetime, a single person can handle grief in many different ways, depending on the loss, the circumstances, where they are in their life when it happens. What Lyn…

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