A Short Stay in Switzerland PT 1

Julie Walters has become a kind of brand - the best kind. Give her a role with any substance and you know she'll deliver a Bafta-worthy performance and leave the audience damp-eyed. And so it proves here, in the moving true story of Bath doctor Anne Turner. Having watched her husband suffer a slow, undignified death, she was diagnosed with a similar neurological condition. "Rotten bad luck," her character muses. Walters plays Turner as the best kind of frank, feisty, upper-middle-class mum. "Let battle commence," she cries as she sets about taking on the illness she knows is incurable, but she soon decides she should be allowed to take her own life with dignity, even if UK law doesn't allow "assisted dying". It's a decision her three grown-up children struggle to cope with. Sadly, their characters are short-changed by Frank McGuinness's script; far better is Harriet Walter as a Christian friend with whom Turner has a searing confrontation over a last game of chess. It's one of several shattering scenes in a drama that forces us to think hard about some big questions.

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[FizzySherbet]

I watched this (I am 13) and I have never cried so much in my life. Her performance was amazing, I could never think of another actress making this role as good as she did. Thank you for uploading this. I wanted to watch it again.

[gicandido]

Hey..Thanks for ur comment !

Yeah i have never cried so much too..Its a amazing and touching performance^^

[JoshFi]

I really hope that Julie gets noticed over here for her stunning work in this film! I really hope she gets a Emmy nomination. Its a beautiful performance.

[gicandido]

Yeah , i hope so..Julie was amazing !!!

She deserves get a Oscar !!

[Squab1972]

So moving and yet so tragic, but a brilliant performance by Julie Walters who portrayed Dr Anne Turner so brilliantly, best drama I have seen in a long time.

[gicandido]

yeah...I agree with You^^

[BiggestFanOfAnubis]

i saw this movie yesterday and OMG i cried so much!

- the best movie ever! ♥

[amylouisejoyce21]

I watched this in ERIC (R.E) In school and I was crying my eyes out :(

[unknown9069]

Thanks for uploading this. :)

[chouslop15]

20,456 views and NO dislikes! maybe its time we let people decide when to end their suffering!

[BlondyZo]

we watched this is rs and i held back the tears where everyone else cried their eyes out. i was called hearless but it was just the fact that i was with people & i dont like crying infront of other people so i thought id watch it again ot prove that i'll cry.

i do love how they show them in the car at the beginning and then they go back to it later on in the film :)

[FrozenRyu7]

We watched this in school...

[MrNSheikh]

such a brilliant tv film. great acting!

[sabina1081]

my grandmother died from P.S.P .. she couldn't eat or talk

i cried so much.. i could never watch that again.

[40704400]

@FizzySherbet my mother is dying from this

[salnmik]

anyone know where i can watch this film, i am a home carer and look after a lady 8 years into psp disease