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Review 1DiscussionA review by Peter McGinn
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Written by Peter McGinn on Tue Jul 20 2021
This is an early effort by Mike Leigh, a writer/director I really like. It seems to have been part of a BBC TV film series.
I can’t say enough about the acting up and down the cast list. Brenda Blethyn and Lesley Manviile did the same superlative job I would come to expect from them in later roles. And I guess Phil Davis must have done a great job also, for he made me dislike his character intensely, and later I realized I have enjoyed a lot of his later work.
Like with most of Mike Leigh’s family dramas, the story builds up to an emotional crisis point, and then settles back into a slig...
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