Writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce and first-time director Carl Hunter have come up with an engaging, offbeat comedy set around the game of Scrabble. Bill Nighy plays Alan, a retired tailor and Scrabble master, still searching for his favourite son who walked out of the family home after a row over the board game and didn’t come back. His other son Peter (Sam Riley) has always felt underappreciated, and things come to ahead when Alan moves into Peter’s house, now investigating an online Scrabble player whose style seems all too familiar.

2018 | Dir Carl Hunter | 91min | UK