Onwards and Sideways

• Rated 7.0 out of 10
• Movie
• 2026
• 1h 45m
• Comedy
• Drama

Tony Evans is the deputy head of a local primary school. Emma Dretzin is a pianist, composer and single mother of two daughters. Neither knows the other until a startling encounter changes the course of their lives: on the same morning, they are both confronted with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s.

Director

John Madden

Starring

Rhys Ifans, Laura Linney, Monica Dolan, Rory Kinnear