Hello everyone,
My name is Denise.
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I watched this film very recently as I am a big fan of Daniel Craig. After watching him in Casino Royal I wanted to watch him in other films before he became the famous 007 agent.
The film starts off when May (Anne Reid) and her husband Toots (Peter Vaughan) travel to London to visit their son Bobby (Steven Mackintosh) and his family and to visit their daughter Paula (Cathryn Bradshaw), a single mum and her son. During their stay Toots has a heart attack and dies. May finds it hard to come to terms with his dead and her becoming a widow that she is too frightened to go back home. Bobby invites her to stay in his house till she pulls herself together, but Bobby's wife is not happy with the arrangement so May moves in with her daughter Paula.
Paula is dating Bobby's best friend, Darren (Daniel Craig) who is also doing some building work on Bobby's house. The only thing is Darren is married and has a son, although we do not see these two characters in the story, Paula mentions to her mother that Darren is only staying with his wife for his son.
Paula asks her mother to find out what Darren thinks of her and if he has any intention to leave his wife for her. May and Darren go out for lunch and get on really well, their friendship soon becomes more physical, with May seducing Darren by asking him to come with her to the guest bedroom (on more than one occasion). May and Darren enjoy each others company both physically and emotionally and over time May finds herself falling for Darren and gets upset and jealous when she sees him with Paula.
This film concentrates on the characters dysfunctional family and the impact each other had on each other throughout their childhood to present day. May is scared of being old and alone, Paula believes her mother never encouraged her when she was younger and therefore blames her mother for everything that has gone wrong in her life. Bobby and his wife are going through a rough time with money being tight and he believes his marriage is failing.
Will Darren leave his wife for Paula? Will Paula find out about Darren's affair with her mother? What will happen to Darren and May - will they run away together? Will Bobby and his wife pull their marriage back together? Will May ever get over her fear about going home?
Overall I thought this film was fantastic I found it to be a very gritty British film. At one point I wondered what has going to happen at the end, and then I reminded myself that this is a British film and British films do not have to end where everyone lives happily ever after.
Runtime - 107 minutes
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Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: John Duigan - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, Penelope Cruz
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Soho_Black 01.08.2008 19:24
I see you've posted this as a DVD review, but you've not mentioned the DVD features. Are there any extras? If so, what are they and are they any good? If you add to this, or if you change it to be posted as a "Film Only" review, which can be done by accessing "edit review" above the review and changing the drop down menu under the "Which format are you reviewing?" question at the bottom, please let me know and I'll re-rate.
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