This Sunday’s matinee at Flix in the Stix, Lingfield’s Film club, stars the wonderful Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci in THE CHILDREN ACT.

Adapted by Ian McEwan from his 2014 novel and smoothly directed by Richard Eyre,  THE CHILDREN ACT stars Emma Thompson as Fiona Maye, a British judge who must decide whether to require Adam, a 17-year-old with leukemia, to receive a blood transfusion. Adam is a Jehovah’s Witness, and blood transfusion runs counter to the religion’s tenets and his parents’ beliefs — and therefore his own.

Fiona is a custodian of children who has no children. She is a gifted listener, yet is too professional and emotionally guarded to truly hear what Adam has to say. And as Fiona’s husband (Stanley Tucci) puts it, in a blunt statement of themes, Fiona is an authority on family problems who neglects to address her own.

Emma Thompson’s performance is elegant and vulnerable. A movie not to miss.