Un jeune garçon placé dans un orphelinat après le suicide de sa mère est adopté par le postier d'un petit village anglais. Les deux hommes vont progressivement apprendre à se connaître...Un jeune garçon placé dans un orphelinat après le suicide de sa mère est adopté par le postier d'un petit village anglais. Les deux hommes vont progressivement apprendre à se connaître...Un jeune garçon placé dans un orphelinat après le suicide de sa mère est adopté par le postier d'un petit village anglais. Les deux hommes vont progressivement apprendre à se connaître...
- Récompenses
- 1 victoire et 2 nominations au total
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Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesSeveral reviews claimed that this film is set in Wales, and a Welsh town was the chief location for the movie, but the setting is, in fact, never specified and the accents of the actors in the film cover a wide area across Britain. Although the American William Hurt was praised for learning a Welsh accent, he actually sounds more like an Englishman from the West Country. It is noticeable that all the road signs seen in the film are only in English, whereas road signs in Wales are always in both English and Welsh.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Only You/Second Best/Pulp Fiction (1994)
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This is an exquisitely poignant tale of a love-starved, troubled orphan boy and an emotionally incomplete man who has decided to reach out for what he wants most in life: a son. Jamie very much wants to love the kind man who wants to adopt him but is prevented from doing so by the promise he made to his biological father just before dad went to jail: to love him "best in the whole world forever." In what may just be the greatest dramatic performance by a child ever captured on film (surpassing even that of Freddie Bartholomew in "Captains Courageous" who had held that title for that past 60 years), Chris Cleary Miles demonstrates a precocity which makes one wonder if he hasn't already overcome some great tribulation(s?) in his short life in order to give such a compelling performance. Alternately masochistic, loving, violent and affectionate, the range and depth of emotion he portrays are nonpareil. I am still having trouble believing it was only a movie! It is unfortunate that Miles never acted in another movie; on the other hand, when you start at the top you can only go down.
Others have called this William Hurt's greatest role and I would have to agree. While his transformation from the stiff, detached loner to loving father was beautifully written in the book by David Cook, Hurt interprets this flawlessly. In fact you might say the film's brilliance was relatively easy on the heels of Cook's depictions. Nevertheless every scene in the movie is significant and the editing with the multiple flashbacks was excellent. Why this film did not win all kinds of awards is beyond me.
"Second Best" is second best to none in its genre.
Others have called this William Hurt's greatest role and I would have to agree. While his transformation from the stiff, detached loner to loving father was beautifully written in the book by David Cook, Hurt interprets this flawlessly. In fact you might say the film's brilliance was relatively easy on the heels of Cook's depictions. Nevertheless every scene in the movie is significant and the editing with the multiple flashbacks was excellent. Why this film did not win all kinds of awards is beyond me.
"Second Best" is second best to none in its genre.
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Second Best
- Lieux de tournage
- Sociétés de production
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Box-office
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 86 115 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 19 190 $US
- 2 oct. 1994
- Montant brut mondial
- 86 115 $US
- Durée1 heure 45 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Le deuxième père (1994) officially released in India in English?
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