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‘Onwards and Sideways’ Review: Laura Linney and Rhys Ifans Cut Through the Sweetness of a Gentle, Compassionate Parkinson’s Drama

John Madden1 min read

‘Onwards and Sideways’ Review: Laura Linney and Rhys Ifans Cut Through the Sweetness of a Gentle, Compassionate Parkinson’s Drama

There’s nothing fun about Parkinson’s disease, and no film about it can engineer an uncompromised happy ending. But John Madden’s “Onwards and Sideways” finds more uplift than one might expect in a story of two people, both living with Parkinson’s, exploring the possibilities of living with it together. It’s generally sunny and soft in outlook, […]

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