A Long Way Down (originally titled Up & Down) is a 2014 black comedy film directed by Pascal Chaumeil, loosely based on author Nick Hornby's 2005 novel of the same name.

The plot centres around four strangers who meet on the roof of a London building on New Year's Eve, each with the intent of dying by suicide.

The narrator, Martin Sharpe, explains his reasoning for his planned suicide: the once-successful media personality became infamous for a scandal involving a teenager, landing him in jail and costing him his marriage, livelihood and child.

The tabloids print a story including Martin and Jess, as she is a politicians daughter, about the suicide so the four convene in Maureen's house to discuss a plan of action.

To profit from misfortune, Martin hatches a scheme that makes them the talk of London, claiming their mass suicide was interrupted by a vision.

They end up on his old TV chat show, where Martin's former co-host Penny makes her guests feel humiliated and even more depressed.

While reading the script for the film in the Colombe D'Or restaurant in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Brosnan stated that he saw Madeley and his wife Judy Finnigan and later said, "I think it's his sheer ebullience and enthusiasm.

The site's consensus reads, "Tonally jumbled and conceptually ill-advised, A Long Way Down bungles its source material and wastes a talented cast.