Coming Down The Mountain – BBC One
/>Coming Down The Mountain is the first TV drama written by award-winning novelist Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time), and bears his distinctive and powerful simplicity of style. This original, funny and poignant 90-minute film looks at the unusual relationship between two teenage brothers and will air in early September on BBC One.
Teenager David falls in love for the first time and life couldn’t be better. The only fly in the ointment is his 17-year-old brother, Ben, who has Down’s syndrome.
The family’s world revolves around Ben’s needs while David’s are unwittingly neglected by their parents. When they decide to move the family from London to “the back of beyond” for the sake of Ben’s education, David loses love, friends and his school. His antipathy to Ben grows and grows to the point where he decides to push him off a mountain and get rid of him once and for all…
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what is the song playing when david is in the station alone after he ran away?
i really wanna know! thankss.
I saw this movie last night and I cried the whole way through.
At the beginning, you think it’s going to be one of those typical movies where the is a down syndrome boy in the family and the family are struggling through it. But as the opening lines are “I didn’t plan to kill him… That sounds stupid given everything that happened, but… It’s not like I sat down and thought, ‘I’m going to murder my brother’. Things just… got out of hand.”- it sucks you in and you are glued to the screen for the next 90 minutes.
It is a fantastic movie, being empathetic towards David, but having mixed feelings for him. You feel happy, sad, sorry, and angry towards him throughout the movie all in different sections.
Both Nicholas Holt and Tommy Jessop played their parts fantastically and I would encourage people for teens to adults to watch it.