Day to Remember

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

On Christmas Day, an elderly man with dementia spends time with his family, who try to manage his confusion and memory loss. The film balances moments of humor with the sadness of watching a loved one fade, based on the writer's own family experience.

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What happens

Day to Remember is a British Christmas television play first transmitted 9.45pm Sunday 21 December 1986 on Channel 4 from Television South Production in association with the Theatre of Comedy Entertainment. Written by Jack Rosenthal it stars George Cole and Rosemary Leach. Again the strength of Rosenthal's comedy play lies with his closeness to the tragedy as it was based on his own experiences with his father-in-law. The pain and terror of dementia portrayed is contained and balanced by the comic presentation that beset the old. When Jack Rosenthal finally wrote his memoirs, An Autobiography in Six Acts, he did so in the form of a screenplay, including a section from Day to Remember; it was published by Robson Books in 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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