MOST movies require their audiences to suspend their disbelief, but Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter (US/12A/127 mins) requires a little more than most.

Canadian writer Mordecai Richler’s novel comes to life thanks to the quite wonderful central performance of Giamatti as the grumpy, hard-living, foulmouthed Barney Panovsky who at the age of 65 looks back over his life and loves.

Dustin Hoffman is to play Paul Giamatti's dad in a new film adaptation of Mordecai Richler's final novel.