John Lennon was shot down by an assassin on December 8, 1980. This film doesn.t cover his final years or Beatles career, but more his turbulent attempt at reconciliation with his father. John Lennon (Christopher Eccleston) is on top of the world with the Beatles along with Paul McCartney (Andrew Scott), George Harrison (Jack Morgan), and Ringo Starr (Craig Cheetham). John is convinced by their manager Brian Epstein (Rory Kinnear) to meet Freddie Lennon (Christopher Fairbank), his estranged father who left seventeen years prior, in a press conference. It does not go well. A reunion three years after also ends poorly. Years later, Lennon is unhappy at home with wife Cynthia (Claudie Blakley) but a meeting with...
- 12/15/2010
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
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