STRONGER

Cert 15

Digital today, disc Monday Jake Gyllenhaal brings a muscular sincerity to this competent real-life drama based on events following 2013’s terrorist bombing of the Boston marathon.

As Jeff Bauman, he struggles to adjust after losing his legs above the knee, threatening his relationship with his girlfriend, Erin, played by Tatiana Maslany. She engages in a tug of war for attention with Miranda Richardson’s showy turn as the paraplegic’s mother. Straightforward and featuring grim injury detail, it ends on a note of flag-waving defiance and a salute to the US lives altered and lost in the long-running war on terror.