Anthony Hopkins leaves fans in tears in ‘breathtaking’ trailer for dementia drama The Father with Olivia Colman

ANTHONY Hopkins leaves fans in tears in the truly spectacular trailer for dementia drama The Father with The Crown's Olivia Colman.

The actor's character Anthony, is suffering a slow and rather confusing decline from dementia, and Coleman plays his daughter Anne.

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After watching the trailer, emotional viewers took to social media as they prepare to watch in the movie in full next year.

One tearful fan wrote: "Oh wow! I’m sobbing at the trailer!"

This excited fan tweeted: "Tears and goosebumps from a trailer ? Huge expectations now!!! Xx"

A third follower posted along with a crying emoji: "Not sure I'll be able to cope with this."

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This fourth fan had mixed emotions about the film, as they commented: "Well s**t, this is going to absolutely destroy me. I can’t wait."

Once a fierce larger-than-life independent man, fans will see how his early onset Alzheimer's takes a devastating toll on his body both physically and mentally.

Anne offers to help her dad but he stubbornly resists, and soon suspects suspects that she is hiding a sinister plan.

His deterioration becomes more apparent as the trailer continues, as he's seen defiantly yelling at his daughter: "I am not leaving my flat!", despite not being asked to leave.

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This tear-jerking new movie is an adaptation of Florian Zeller's play of the same name.

His illness continues to get worse and it becomes more apparent when Anthony fails to recognise his own daughter when she walked into his flat one day.

Near the end of the trailer, he asked: "Who are you exactly?" and even fails to recognise himself as he enquired: "Who exactly am I?"

Zellar also directed the movie himself and gave his thoughts on what he hopes the show will achieve.

He shared: "The idea was never just to tell a story about dementia from the outside, it was to give the opportunity to the audience to experience signs of dementia, as if they were in the main character’s head."