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Never Let Me Go

2010
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6.8/10

Release Date

18/03/2010

Popularity

🍅 Rotten Tomatoes
71%
🎬 Internet Movie Database
71%
Ⓜ️ Metacritic
69%

These students have everything they need. Except time.

In 1978, Kathy recalls her childhood at Hailsham, a traditional English boarding school. The tutors encourage students to look after their health and create works of art, and the best pieces end up on display in a gallery. Kathy is an observant girl who spends her days with Ruth and Tommy, her closest friends. The three of them barely have any contact with what happens beyond the school fences. As the years go by, the friendship starts to get complicated. Kathy wants to keep the bond that unites them intact, but the feelings she has for Tommy grow in silence while the others move down different paths.

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Facts about Never Let Me Go

Releases, age ratings, box office, post-credit scenes and more.

Post-credits sceneNone
Age ratingNot recommended for viewers under 7 years old
Spain releaseMarch 18, 2011
Worldwide premiereMarch 18, 2010
Runtime1 h 43 min
Original languageEnglish
Original titleNever Let Me Go
CountriesUnited Kingdom, United States
Production companiesDNA Films, Film4 Productions, Fox Searchlight Pictures
Budget$15.0M
Worldwide box office$9.9M
Box office in the U.S.$2.4M
Box office returnx0.7 Box office flop
Based onNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Trailer views17.4 M

More ratings

3.5/5Letterboxd71/100Trakt7.2/10Metacritic (público)4.0/4Roger Ebert

Awards for Never Let Me Go

8total awards
28total nominations

Never Let Me Go Cast

Izzy Meikle-Small
Izzy Meikle-SmallYoung Kathy
Nathalie Richard
Nathalie RichardMadame
Kate Bowes Renna
Kate Bowes RennaMiss Geraldine
Hannah Sharp
Hannah SharpAmanda
Christina Carrafiell
Christina CarrafiellLaura
Oliver Parsons
Oliver ParsonsArthur
Luke Bryant
Luke BryantDavid
Fidelis Morgan
Fidelis MorganMatron
Damien Thomas
Damien ThomasDoctor
Huggy Leaver
Huggy LeaverDelivery Man 1
Charles Cork
Charles CorkDelivery Man 2
Sylvie Macdonald
Sylvie MacdonaldBumper Crop Girl
David Sterne
David SterneKeffers
Kate Sissons
Kate SissonsSitcom Girl
Amy Lennox
Amy LennoxSitcom Girl
Anna-Maria Everett
Anna-Maria EverettWaitress
John Gillespie
John GillespieMale Office Worker
Rachel Boss
Rachel BossFemale Office Worker
Chidi Chickwe
Chidi ChickweGeorge

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Cast of Never Let Me Go by the numbers

27average cast age in years
0years of age gap between the leads
66%women in the cast
37%women in the crew

The youngest in the main cast: Izzy Meikle-Small, age 14 at release. The oldest: Charlotte Rampling, at 65.

Cast ages at release

Cast heights

Cast nationalities

United Kingdom 6United States 1France 1Ireland 1

Crew

  • AddressMark Romanek
  • WritingAlex Garland
  • Original novelKazuo Ishiguro
  • MusicRachel Portman
  • PhotographyAdam Kimmel
  • EditingBarney Pilling
  • Production designMark Digby
  • Costume designRachael Fleming, Stephen Noble
  • CastingKate Dowd
  • Visual effectsMatthew Twyford
  • ProductionAndrew Macdonald, Allon Reich

Trivia about Never Let Me Go

Peter Rice, head of the company financing the film, sent Romanek a text message while he was watching An Education at Sundance. That's how the casting of Carey Mulligan was decided.
Mulligan didn't know how to drive when it came time to shoot the scenes behind the wheel. The crew had to film the scene on a private road, where she could sit behind the wheel.
Never Let Me Go was the second film based on an Ishiguro novel to open the London Film Festival, after The Remains of the Day in 1993.
The song Kathy listens to in the film comes from a tape Tommy gives her at Hailsham. The record and the singer are fictional, but the song is real: it was written by Luther Dixon and performed by Jane Monheit.

Sources: Wikipedia (Spanish) · Wikipedia (English)

What it's about Never Let Me Go

london, englandbased on novel or booklove triangleenglandboarding schoolforgivenessdystopiasadnessagingcloningmoralityhuman rightsexistentialismhuman clonecrime against humanitymedical ethicsorgan traffickingabomination

Main theme: cloning

What Never Let Me Go is called in other countries

It was released in 31 countries, each in its own language.

  • SpainNunca me abandones
  • FranceAuprès de moi toujours
  • GermanyAlles, was wir geben mussten
  • ItalyNon lasciarmi
  • MexicoNunca me abandones (Never Let Me Go)
  • BrazilNão Me Abandone Jamais
  • PortugalNunca Me Deixes
  • Japanわたしを離さないで:2010
  • South Korea네버 렛미고
  • China别让我走
  • RussiaНе отпускай меня
  • BulgariaНикога не ме оставяй
See the remaining 19 countries
  • CanadaAuprès de moi toujours
  • CzechiaNeopouštěj mě
  • FinlandOle luonani aina
  • GreeceΜη Μ' Αφήσεις Ποτέ
  • Hong Kong愛.別讓我走
  • HungaryNe engedj el!
  • Iranهرگز رهایم نکن
  • Israelלעולם אל תעזוב אותי
  • LatviaNekad nelaid mani vaļā
  • LithuaniaNeleisk man išeiti
  • PolandNie Opuszczaj Mnie
  • RomaniaSă nu mă părăsești niciodată
  • SerbiaНикад ме не остављај
  • SlovakiaNeopúšťaj ma
  • Taiwan別讓我走
  • Thailandครั้งหนึ่งของชีวิต ขอรักเธอ
  • TurkeyBeni Asla Bırakma
  • UkraineНіколи не відпускай мене
  • VietnamMãi Đừng Xa Tôi

Where it was filmed Never Let Me Go

Where the Story Takes Place

Where the Story Takes Place

Source: Wikidata. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Quotes by Never Let Me Go

  • It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I'd known, maybe I'd have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart.
  • Miss Emily: We didn't have to look into your souls, we had to see if you had souls at all.
  • Title Card: The breakthrough in medical science came in 1952. Doctors could now cure the previously incurable. By 1967, life expectancy passed 100 years.

Source: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA)

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Soundtrack from Never Let Me Go

Original music by Rachel Portman

Never Let Me Go (Original Motion Picture Score)
SoundtrackNever Let Me Go (Original Motion Picture Score)Rachel Portman · 2010 · 19 songs

Songs

  1. 1
    The Pier
    2:04
  2. 2
    Main Titles
    3:00
  3. 3
    Bumper Crop
    3:07
  4. 4
    To the Cottages
    1:38
  5. 5
    The Boat
    1:51
  6. 6
    Madame Is Coming
    2:25
  7. 7
    Ruth's Betrayal
    2:49
  8. 8
    Making Tea
    1:14
  9. 9
    Evening Visit
    1:49
  10. 10
    Kathy and Tommy
    2:04

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