‘Nowhere Special’ Review: Understated Terminal Illness Drama Earns Your Tears

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‘Nowhere Special’ Review: Understated Terminal Illness Drama Earns Your Tears

Uberto Pasolini’s “Nowhere Special” is delicately tinted by profound shades of imminent grief. As a 35-year-old, terminally ill single father in Northern Ireland, John (a quietly powerful James Norton) grieves his impending demise and the inevitable fact that he will vacate his four-year-old son Michael’s (Daniel Lamont) life permanently and prematurely. A Belfast window washer, John sees the reflections of his grief everywhere as he scrubs and …