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6.8/10   24 votes
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Annie Griffin (written by)
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Release Date:
14 February 2009 (UK) more
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The New Town area of Edinburgh is a magnet for architects, estate agents and upwardly-mobile families... more | add synopsis
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Dark and wry, with an acute sense of place more (2 total)

Cast

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Cameron Bowie ... Atte
Ewan Donald ... Mr Hendry
Gabriel Quigley ... Shona Glennie
Natasha Watson ... Simone
Lucie Crystal ... Kirsty Glennie
Juliet Cadzow ... Mrs Showalter
Mark Gatiss ... Duff Purves
Max Bremer ... Mikko Pekkala
Edith MacArthur ... Mrs MacIver
Rose Leslie ... Rhian

Duncan Duff ... Ernst de Bont
John Bett ... Archie Linklater

Omid Djalili ... Walter Bannerman

Daniela Nardini ... Meredith McIlvanney
Catherine Murray ... Yvette
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Purves and Pekkala (UK) (working title)
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UK:75 min
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Continuity: When Mrs MacIver leaves the dinner table to answer the door, Rhian drinks most of her glass of wine but in the long shot when Mrs MacIver returns the wine glass is full though it is emptier again in the next shot. more

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Dark and wry, with an acute sense of place, 17 May 2009
8/10
Author: paul2001sw-1 (paul2001sw@yahoo.co.uk) from Saffron Walden, UK

As a former resident of (the grottier end of) Edinburgh's New Town, I can testify that it's a city district much like any other. For sure, there's the striking Georgian architecture, and a lot of money, particularly in the streets up the top of the hill, but circa 1992, living in the lower reaches didn't feel so very different to living anywhere else: a poky room in Cumberland Street didn't make me feel like a rich man. Annie Griffin's delightful 'New Town', the pilot of a series that never materialised, of course has fun with a rather different notion of the place, full of social climbers and the lairdy class - which is probably no less accurate a vision, even if the truth is a tad less homogeneous. But Griffin's wry script couples acerbic wit, formidable Scottish characterisations (Edinburgh clichés, but bang on the nail) and a very particular sense of place (even my obscure former road was name-checked; and the script pays close attention to the realities of geography, both human and physical, as it guides you around the city's grandest district). In some ways, this does feel like a pilot: you don't yet know the characters well enough to be belly-laughing, and although the start is promising, it's hard to say whether they would have proved to have sufficient depth to sustain an entire series. But if they did decide belatedly to make it, I'd watch.

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