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Leigh](https://www.edgepedia.org/mike-leigh), following four seasons in the life of a contented, near-retirement London couple, Tom and Gerri, as their lonelier friends and relatives pass through their home. It premiered in [Competition](https://www.edgepedia.org/competition) at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the [Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay](https://www.edgepedia.org/academy-award-for-best-original-screenplay)[1](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/another-year/) • [2](https://europeanscreen.com/titles/another-year/).\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Director and writer | Mike Leigh, produced by Georgina Lowe for Thin Man Films with Film4[1](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/another-year/) • [3](https://www.bfi.org.uk/film/0ac2d028-6cd0-5ad5-bb08-793a13422586/another-year) |\n| Release | Premiered in Competition at Cannes 2010; UK release 5 November 2010; US limited release 29 December 2010[1](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/another-year/) • [4](https://cineuropa.org/en/film/141826/rl/1/) • [5](https://www.movieinsider.com/m6349/another-year) |\n| Runtime and rating | 129 minutes, PG-13[1](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/another-year/) • [6](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/another-year) |\n| Principal cast | Jim Broadbent (Tom), Ruth Sheen (Gerri), Lesley Manville (Mary), Oliver Maltman (Joe), Peter Wight (Ken), David Bradley (Ronnie)[7](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/another-year/) |\n| Awards | Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay; New York Film Critics Circle win for Best Supporting Actress (Lesley Manville)[2](https://europeanscreen.com/titles/another-year/) |\n| Critical scores | Rotten Tomatoes 93% from 170 reviews; Metacritic 81, \"Universal Acclaim\"[8](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/another_year_2010) • [7](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/another-year/) |\n| Streaming (2026) | US: Howdy Amazon Channel, free with ads on The Roku Channel, YouTube Free and Tubi TV; UK: Channel 4 Plus[6](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/another-year) • [9](https://www.flickfinder.net/movie/another-year-2010-44009) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise and structure\n\nThe film is organized across the four seasons of one calendar year, each chapter titled for the season it depicts. Tom ([Jim Broadbent](https://www.edgepedia.org/jim-broadbent)), a geologist, and Gerri ([Ruth Sheen](https://www.edgepedia.org/ruth-sheen)), a medical counselor and [National Health Service](https://www.edgepedia.org/national-health-service) therapist, are a married couple in their sixties who tend an allotment garden and open their home, over meals and drinks, to a circle of people whose lives are less settled[1](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/another-year/) • [10](https://www.timeout.com/movies/another-year).\n\nVisitors come and go at different depths. Gerri's depressed patient Janet ([Imelda Staunton](https://www.edgepedia.org/imelda-staunton)) appears briefly at the start; the old friend Ken (Peter Wight) visits from the north of England in the summer, masking an unhappy personal life with smoking, drinking and eating; and a winter funeral in Derby introduces Ronnie (David Bradley), Tom's older brother, a quiet, bereaved man[10](https://www.timeout.com/movies/another-year).\n\n**Mary is the center of the film's drama.** Gerri's recently divorced work colleague Mary ([Lesley Manville](https://www.edgepedia.org/lesley-manville)) receives the film's greatest focus; its central subject is her slow, painful realization of how she fits into the warmth of Tom and Gerri's household.[2](https://europeanscreen.com/titles/another-year/) A single woman whose husband left her, she hides her loneliness behind wishful thinking, delusions about her age and alcohol, and her interest in the couple's adult son Joe (Oliver Maltman), a lawyer considerably younger than she is, destabilizes the household[10](https://www.timeout.com/movies/another-year) • [8](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/another_year_2010).\n\nAt its core, the movie explores the divide between people who are at peace with their lives and those who are not, between individuals whose lives sustain them and individuals whose lives do not, while raising the awkward question of what makes the difference[11](https://sightlines.media/film/44009/another-year-2010). Its comedy is the comedy of social embarrassment and self-delusion rather than of situation, and its realism is observational and character-first rather than issue-driven[11](https://sightlines.media/film/44009/another-year-2010).\n\n## Production\n\nMike Leigh, the British filmmaker who had won the [Palme d'Or](https://www.edgepedia.org/palme-dor) for *Secrets & Lies* in 1996 and the Best Director prize at Cannes for *Naked* in 1993, returned to Cannes in Competition for the fourth time with this film[12](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/2010/another-film-by-mike-leigh/). Leigh's working method involves no initial script, only themes and character outlines; actors rehearse for months and develop their characters while giving shape to the storyline[12](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/2010/another-film-by-mike-leigh/). According to a Sight & Sound interview, on this film Leigh and Lesley Manville spent a large amount of time maturing Mary's condition and accumulating her layers of mostly bad experience[13](https://bfidatadigipres.github.io/mike%20leigh/2021/11/19/another-year/).\n\nThe film was greenlit at the beginning of 2009 and completed a year later, which Leigh described as very quick for one of his films[14](https://www.vanityfair.com/video/watch/mike-leigh). It received £102,625 for development and £780,000 for production from the UK Film Council[15](https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/143123). The production companies included Thin Man Films, Film4, Focus Features and the UK Film Council, and the film is dedicated to the memory of Simon Channing Williams, Leigh's producer since *High Hopes* in 1988, who died in April 2009[12](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/2010/another-film-by-mike-leigh/) • [7](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/another-year/).\n\nThe crew carried over Leigh regulars: Dick Pope as cinematographer, Gary Yershon composing the meditative score, Simon Beresford on production design, and Jon Gregory editing[1](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/another-year/). Jim Broadbent worked with Leigh for the seventh time on the film, and Lesley Manville was Leigh's most frequent actor collaborator[16](https://cdn.festival-cannes.com/media/uploads/2023/03/70764.pdf).\n\n## Release and reception\n\n[Sony Pictures Classics](https://www.edgepedia.org/sony-pictures-classics) acquired all North American rights in a deal negotiated at Cannes on May 20, 2010, where the film debuted; the company planned a release by the end of the year[17](https://www.sonyclassics.com/downloads/AnotherYear-Release.pdf). It was released in the UK on 5 November 2010, in France and Belgium on 22 December 2010, in Germany on 27 January 2011, and in Spain on 14 October 2011, where the 133-minute version drew 90,456 admissions and €575,566.44[4](https://cineuropa.org/en/film/141826/rl/1/) • [18](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/es-es/Peliculas/Detalle?Pelicula=216511). The US limited release was Wednesday, December 29, 2010, and DVD and Blu-ray followed on June 7, 2011[5](https://www.movieinsider.com/m6349/another-year) • [19](https://www.fandango.com/another-year-135270/movie-overview).\n\nCritical reception was strongly positive. On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds 93% from 170 reviews, with a critics' consensus citing strong performances and Leigh's feel for the nuances of everyday life; Metacritic gave it a Metascore of 81 from 36 critic reviews, labeled \"Universal Acclaim\"[8](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/another_year_2010) • [7](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/another-year/). Roger Ebert, writing in the [Chicago Sun-Times](https://www.edgepedia.org/chicago-sun-times), called the film \"like a long, purifying soak in empathy\"[20](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/another-year/critic-reviews/). Individual reviewers were not uniform: the [Chicago Tribune](https://www.edgepedia.org/chicago-tribune)'s Michael Phillips wrote that for all its warmth, he did not know if Leigh had ever made a crueler picture, while one Village Voice review was sharply negative[7](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/another-year/). Manville's closing performance, silent at a dinner table surrounded by a family that is not hers, drew particular attention as one of the most exact non-verbal performances in Leigh's films[2](https://europeanscreen.com/titles/another-year/).\n\nAwards recognition included the Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, a New York Film Critics Circle win for Best Supporting Actress for Manville, an Amanda Award for Best Foreign Feature Film, and European Film Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Composer[2](https://europeanscreen.com/titles/another-year/) • [7](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/another-year/).\n\n## Streaming availability\n\nAs of late October 2026, in the United States the film streams on Howdy Amazon Channel and free with ads on [The Roku Channel](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-roku-channel), YouTube Free and Tubi TV, and can be rented on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store and Fandango At Home[6](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/another-year). In the United Kingdom it streams on Channel 4 Plus and can be rented on BFI Player[9](https://www.flickfinder.net/movie/another-year-2010-44009) • [3](https://www.bfi.org.uk/film/0ac2d028-6cd0-5ad5-bb08-793a13422586/another-year). It is not currently on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ or Max in any region[9](https://www.flickfinder.net/movie/another-year-2010-44009). On JustWatch's daily streaming chart it sits near rank 9,000, reflecting the modest audience footprint of a 16-year-old arthouse title[6](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/another-year).\n\n## References\n\n1. [ANOTHER YEAR, Festival de Cannes](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/another-year/)\n2. [Another Year, European Screen](https://europeanscreen.com/titles/another-year/)\n3. [Another Year (2010), British Film Institute](https://www.bfi.org.uk/film/0ac2d028-6cd0-5ad5-bb08-793a13422586/another-year)\n4. [Another Year, Cineuropa](https://cineuropa.org/en/film/141826/rl/1/)\n5. [Everything You Need to Know About Another Year Movie (2010), MovieInsider](https://www.movieinsider.com/m6349/another-year)\n6. [Another Year streaming, JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/another-year)\n7. [Another Year Reviews, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/another-year/)\n8. [Another Year (2010), Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/another_year_2010)\n9. [Where to watch Another Year (2010), FlickFinder](https://www.flickfinder.net/movie/another-year-2010-44009)\n10. [Another Year 2010 review, Time Out](https://www.timeout.com/movies/another-year)\n11. [Another Year (2010), Sightlines](https://sightlines.media/film/44009/another-year-2010)\n12. [Another Film by Mike Leigh, Festival de Cannes (15 May 2010)](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/2010/another-film-by-mike-leigh/)\n13. [Another Year, BFI Southbank Programme Notes](https://bfidatadigipres.github.io/mike%20leigh/2021/11/19/another-year/)\n14. [Mike Leigh on \"Another Year\", Vanity Fair](https://www.vanityfair.com/video/watch/mike-leigh)\n15. [Another Year another Cannes for Mike Leigh, Cineuropa](https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/143123)\n16. [ANOTHER YEAR final international production notes, Festival de Cannes](https://cdn.festival-cannes.com/media/uploads/2023/03/70764.pdf)\n17. [Sony Pictures Classics Acquires All North American Rights to Mike Leigh's Another Year (20 May 2010)](https://www.sonyclassics.com/downloads/AnotherYear-Release.pdf)\n18. [ANOTHER YEAR, ICAA film catalog](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/es-es/Peliculas/Detalle?Pelicula=216511)\n19. [Another Year Movie Tickets & Showtimes, Fandango](https://www.fandango.com/another-year-135270/movie-overview)\n20. 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