Part of Channel Four's "Beckett on Film" series, playwright and screenwriter Conor McPherson's screen adaptation of Samuel Beckett's classic play sees Hamm (
Michael Gambon), a blind and cantankerous old man, belittle Clov (
David Thewlis), his increasingly resentful servant. Hamm's "accursed progenitors" (Charles Simon) and
Jean Anderson) occasionally interject timid commentary from the sidelines, where they bide their time in trash bins. ~ Rebecca Flint, All Movie Guide