H Is for Hawk (2025) (original) (raw)
After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel.
After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel. (less)
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
Writers: Emma Donoghue, Philippa Lowthorpe
Starring: Claire Foy, Brendan Gleeson, Denise Gough, Lindsay Duncan, Sam Spruell, Arty Froushan
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Review by Brian Orndorf, December 24, 2025
8 / 10
In 2014, author Helen Macdonald released her memoir, �H is for Hawk,� which explored an emotionally turbulent year for the woman, who handled the loss of her beloved father through the strange ways of falconry, giving her a unique distraction as she dealt with so much. Screenwriters Emma Donoghue and Philippa Lowthorpe (who also directs) elect to bring such an experience to the screen, dramatizing the roughness of Helen�s state of mind and her special relationship with a Eurasian goshawk. It�s the stuff of a television movie, but �H is for Hawk� tries to be a tad more sensitive about the chara ...read more...
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