TRAGIC
A golden opportunity to do a great British film COMPLETELY messed up by dreadful, US-pandering casting. Anyone who's read the book can only be disappointed by the two dimensional characters - all of them are rubbish. Why not Carey Mulligan or - even better - Samantha Morton to play NORTHERNER Emma Morely. And Nicholas Hoult or Ben Whishaw as Dexter?
Shame on David Nicholls for bothering to write the screenplay and then seeing it go to the dogs for the sake of the yankee money shot. The film looks as terrible as the book was brilliant. Shame..