Edie is 83 years old and believes it is never too late to complete your dreams. When her overbearing husband passes away she sees this as her last opportunity to head to Scotland and climb Mount Suilven which is not a simple or easy task.
Eleanor Riese a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital knows that the medication she is being given is making her worse. She manages to request a lawyer and Colette Hughes takes on the case, which turns out to be an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients by having consent to the drugs they are given.
Struggling to come to terms with the break up from his college girlfriend, Adam is then invited to her wedding to Aaron. Something Allison really didn’t think would be a big issue?
Ex-con Dell Scott is struggling to find a job with his record and everything changes when by chance he ends up interviewing for a job for Phillip Lacasse who is a quadriplegic. The difference in backgrounds creates a new lease of life for both men.
Ernst Toller is the pastor at the First Reformed Church in upstate New York. It is seen as a tourist church or a souvenir shop. He begins to write a diary which he will keep for a year then destroy, he is struggling to deal with the tragedy he is dealing with on a daily basis.
Dr. Steven Murphy must eventually face his past when a teenage boy named Martin who you had taken under his wing begins to act very strangely once he meets his family.
Something very positive from 2018 was how many fantastic roles in film we had for women, this list was extremely difficult to put together this year as I certainly had a lot to choose from! That can obviously only be a very good thing in my opinion.
Here are the 25 performances that made it onto my list . . .
A very tough list to put together as it is really hard to narrow it down to 25 performances. I have somehow managed and the order could so easily be interchangeable between different performance types. But here are the 25 male performances that impressed me the most in films from 2018 that I managed to watch over the course of the year.
Take a look at who made the final list . . .
McKellen: Playing the Part is a truly fantastic documentary taking a look at the life and work of acting legend Sir Ian McKellen. A very intimate journey with the man showing sides to him that we have never really seen before.
Jan van Loos a young artist falls in love with the young married woman he is painting along her husband. During the Tulip mania in Amsterdam in the 17th Century.
