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A Single Man is a 2009 American period romantic drama film based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. The directorial debut of fashion designer Tom Ford , the film stars Colin Firth , who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of George Falconer, a depressed gay British university professor ...
- $7 million
- Tom Ford, Andrew Miano, Robert Salerno, Chris Weitz
Dec 23, 2009 · "A Single Man" is told from the point of view of its hero, George (Colin Firth), the single man. He is single because he's unmarried and single because he's homosexual; the phrase was used at one time with a lifted eyebrow. It has been eight months since his lover died, and he still grieves. He is empty.
Feb 11, 2010 · George Falconer, played by Firth, is an expatriate Englishman in Los Angeles, a bespectacled college professor teaching English literature. It is 1962, and there is fever and change in...
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Dec 10, 2009 · R. 1h 39m. By Manohla Dargis. Dec. 10, 2009. See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. The face of grief that the actor Colin Firth wears in “A Single...
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A Single Man: Directed by Tom Ford. With Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode. An English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.
Colin Firth. Actor: A Single Man. Colin Andrew Firth was born into an academic family in Grayshott, Hampshire, England. His mother, Shirley Jean (Rolles), was a comparative religion lecturer at the Open University, and his father, David Norman Lewis Firth, lectured on history at Winchester University College (formerly King Alfred's College) in ...
In 2009, Firth received international acclaim for his performance in Tom Ford's A Single Man, for which he won a BAFTA Award and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and received his first Academy Award nomination. In 2010, his portrayal of King George VI in Tom Hooper's The King's Speech won him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
