Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

TxMike I was able to find this on Netflix streaming, my wife and I enjoyed it. Good, relatively clean family movie, it is a story of mending family relationships and finding out what "success" in life really is.Set in about 2010, in London, Stephen Dillane is Harry Papadopoulos. His Greek family had emigrated to London where he grew up, worked in the family fish and chips business, then graduated to big time. He was a wealthy businessman now with a nice family and a massive home, although his wife died when their youngest son, now 9, was born.What does a serious, wealthy man do to achieve greater "success"? Well in this story he borrows millions to expand and develop a shopping center. Unfortunate timing, it was on the heels of the financial crisis and all that resulted in his having to declare bankruptcy, lose his home, and move into the vacant storefront that used to operate as Three Brothers Fish and Chips.So Harry has to make choices. His estranged older brother shows up and gets him to agree to reopen the shop. It becomes a real family affair. In a nice touch Dillane's real life son, Frank Dillane, plays his teenage son James Papadopoulos. Eventually Harry comes to realize "success" has no particular financial value, it is what makes you happy each day. Maybe operating the fish and chips shop with his family can be his greatest success.

Kely Christmas I get the story. I get the message—I'm a movie message geek, if there ever was such a thing. But, there was no middle to this story. I really don't get how everything just evolved into the ending, in a sense? We never truly saw him all that happy until after his brother died. We never truly saw the love story develop between him and that girl, by the way, until the very end. We never saw him bond with his kids all that much, other than with his oldest son. . .though I wouldn't call that bonding completely. It was all just random; the ending came at such a random resolution. They spent so much time building up the story, creating the characters, and adding to the cinematography that we never truly see the exposition—the build up. When his brother died, I couldn't even force myself to feel sad or even sympathetic, to be honest. It was so random: one moment, his brother is in a mid-coma, and the next his brother dies? Huh? He literally tells him that "you have to let me go" and yet, what was there to let go off? Most of the movie, he was just there, he was just moping about and completely shoving at his brother. I never truly saw a moment where they hung out without that tension, where they laughed and had fun. I suppose the middle was supposed to be the pictures, which is completely lazy. I can't believe that movie was that. I was bored out of my mind in the beginning and then in the end, I was just disappointed. I felt a slight rise of happiness when I saw him dancing in the end, but then it ended of course.And don't get me wrong, I am all for sensitive, deep, and long, slow movies, but this went from beginning to end. There was no build up at all. I love—and I mean it—love family movies; family movies are all I live for in my cinema life, to be honest. But, this, this was just "family is broken" then suddenly, haphazardly "family is fixed." There was no slow progression into the ending, where we could see all of our favorite moments and list them one by one. It just began and ended.I can't force myself into liking a movie like that. No, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. It was barely okay—it was just here. No offense to all who felt deeply moved by it. I barely felt my heart move a bit in this movie. Anyway, oh well. It was at least a good try and a great opportunity for another ethnicity to get a movie that seemed true to their culture and their roots. At least, there were a few parts that made me smile—the dancing in the end, the daughter's silly love story, and that one scene of bonding between the dad and the oldest son. I can at least give the movie that.

l_rawjalaurence Set in and around suburban London, PAPADOPOULOS AND SONS focuses on the fortunes of Harry (Stephen Dillane) as he falls from being an award-winning self-made millionaire into a fish-and-chip-shop owner. Along the way he re-encounters brother Theo (Thomas Underhill) with whom he has not spoken for several years, and discovers that family loyalty and daily industry are more important ingredients for happiness rather than filthy lucre.A familiar tale, no doubt; but one that is given particular poignancy by its background. The Papadopoulos family came to Britain in the wake of the Cyprus civil war in 1974; only two of the three brothers survived, and their childhood experiences still scar their adult lives. The fact that a Turkish Cypriot family, headed by Hasan (George Savvides) owns a kebab shop opposite the fish-and- chip-shop is something rather disturbing for the Papadopulos family, reminding them of past conflicts.Yet director Marcus Markou seems uncertain as to whether he wants to explore the family's traumas in detail or to exploit the material for knockabout laughs. Harry's business associate Rob (Ed Stoppard) comes across as a figure of fun, so obsessed with money that he cannot appreciate any other values. In the end employee Sophie (Cosima Shaw) an American divorcée becomes so tired of Rob's posturing that she quits her job and opts for a life of drudgery in the chip shop.In the end all turns out well, as the family, their friends and the Turkish Cypriots indulge in a Greek dance in the street outside the shop. But we cannot help but feel that Markou has shied away from exploring his material and his characters in greater depth so as to provide a happy ending.

osmundbullock Utterly dire, the worst type of contemporary British film - was this Lottery-funded, I wonder? Allegedly a comedy drama it is neither funny nor dramatic - the sort of piece they used to call 'heart-warming' for want of anything else positive to say.Dillane is catastrophically miscast - about as Greek as an Asda moussaka. Not the most inspiring screen actor at the best of times, for the first half he stands around looking stunned-to-blankly moody, saying little and little apparently going on inside either. But that's better than when he does finally start saying something - so bland he seems to have suffered a stroke. The script, the direction, the editing unutterably clichéd, unimaginative, predictable and SLOOOOOW - and I *love* slow when the slowness lets you watch interesting things going on. No such luck here.The most unbelievable brothers since Schwarzenegger and DeVito in 1988 - but this time it's not meant to be a joke. And finally the traditional British film failing: some really embarrassing supporting turns which should have been ruthlessly excised - the guy playing Lars, the Scandinavian money man, gets my award for the worst foreign accent of the decade...nearer German, if anything, but like one in a bad war film of the 1950s. The only Greekness I detected anywhere was in the music, but even that relentlessly trying to tell us what we should be feeling and when (the script and action having failed to do so) - sad, hopeful, joyful, sad again (and again and again)...and finally triumphant and (you've guessed it) heart-warming.At one point a character (Dillane? I forget) says, "This doesn't feel right" - the most truthful line in the movie, I'm afraid.