I saw this back in the 90′s. I remember Brenda Blethyn crying all over the place and being irritatingly self-pitying. Blethyn is Cynthia, the weary middle-aged mom of surly Roxanne. Cynthia works in a cardboard factory, Roxanne is a roadsweeper. They ain’t exactly come up in the world. Timothy Spall – Maurice – as Cynthia’s [...]
Strictly speaking this isn’t a feature film but a play made for BBC 2. You’ve got “Mand” (Lesley Manville) as the newly married working class wife (with a fag on in that pic there) of Dick (Philip Davis) in his horrible cross-ply synthetic cardigan. They’ve just moved into their first house/home together in Canterbury. Next [...]
Slurpy swishy soundtrack over opening credits: we’re in for a nice dollop of sentimental heart-warmery. It’s BBC 1 on a Thursday night just after the News. Fodder for sleepy heads in need of mildly diverting sugaryness to drop into pre-bedtime cups of milky cocoa. Brenda Blethyn: Mrs Reliable. Peter Mullan: Mr Bloody Believable (that’s him [...]
