
Prosperous professional couple Mike and Christine are settling in for a standard evening of wine, TV and low-level marital hostility when a ring on their doorbell changes everything. Turns out their son Sebastian is in a little trouble with some local boys, who are quite prepared to camp out and wait for him to get home... The resulting culture-clash chamber drama is raw, revealing and nerve-splittingly tense.... (Full plot summary below)
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Prosperous professional couple Mike and Christine are settling in for a standard evening of wine, TV and low-level marital hostility when a ring on their doorbell changes everything. Turns out their son Sebastian is in a little trouble with some local boys, who are quite prepared to camp out and wait for him to get home... The resulting culture-clash chamber drama is raw, revealing and nerve-splittingly tense.
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| News of the WorldRobbie CollinCombining top-notch craft and strong performances across the board, particularly from the younger cast members, Cherry Tree Lane is indie filmmaking done very, very right. |
| Total FilmNeil SmithA gruelling suspenser told in real time, flecked with a darkly comic sensibility and a smattering of class-war critique. |
| Empire MagazineDamon WiseTaut, tightly-plotted and at times confronting, it'll have you gripping the arm of your seat and double-locking the door. |
| London Evening StandardDerek MalcolmGood playing and powerful film-making make Cherry Tree Lane distinctive. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerImpressively directed, superbly acted thriller that's both suspenseful and horrifying, though the decision to keep all the violence offscreen won't work for everyone. |
| Independent (UK)Anthony QuinnIts suggestion of a conscienceless underclass will be as a red rag to more conservative souls, but you suspect Williams won't care. He's becoming a real player in the cinema of ordeal. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawIf Michael Haneke were drafted in to direct an EastEnders Christmas special, it might look like this raw, no-budget, home-invasion nightmare. |
| The Ooh TrayEd Whitfield... A technically proficient and psychologically aware piece of class baiting ... |
| Little White LiesAnton Bitel...bringing vastly different classes and generations into explosive collision, and utterly unsettling the bourgeois norms of a society that prefers to keep its problems on the other side of the door. |
| Daily Mirror (UK)David EdwardsOffers little but secondhand platitudes on the dehumanising effects of violence while proving that the generation gap is as wide as ever. |