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Coming Down the Mountain

Sunday 02 September
9:00pm - 10:20pm
BBC1

After About a Boy and Skins, Nicholas Hoult seems to have become the poster boy for disaffected teens. He's a similarly angsty and often annoying late adolescent in Coming Down the Mountain, written by Mark Haddon (author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time). He's David, whose brother Ben (Tommy Jessop) has Down's syndrome. Increasingly furious at the central role Ben's needs take within the family, David goes completely off the rails after the family moves to the Peak District from their London home (again, for Ben, so he can attend a better school). Sometimes it's a road movie ŕ la Rain Man, sometimes it's an only slightly more grown-up version of Hollyoaks. But there's something winning about it. Jessop is entrancing as the brother who sees an awful lot more than he lets on, and Hoult's charm means David isn't quite as awful as he might be.

From radiotimes