Heckle (2013) User Reviews

The Grimy North Vs The Posh South

[collin-43077 · 7/10 · 30 March 2021]

Enjoy. 100 minutes of what used to be known as light entertainment.

After seven years of living part time in t'north, me duck, I moved away from the working men's clubs & karaoke pubs of a former mining village in the NW Midlands. Away from the black cloud that hovers above an open landfill site, the putrid cloud content permeating every pore of skin and every fibre of your soul. Back to the honesty and warmth of my native South East.

The writers portray Selby as a place as dark as that which I experienced.

Don't believe them. People in the area I was living in could only dream of a place as delightful as Selby.

Yet the point is, the writers totally understand the north/south divide and that theme is constantly bubbling away in the script. Represented by the casting of a "posh southern w****r" comedian and local lasses from t'corner shop in juxtaposition.

Best line, North Vs south?

"Good evening, Selby! It's great to be back in the north...

Well, heat is overrated, after all."

Well said, posh southern w***** comedian!

Related to it. Loved it.

Watch it - me duck!

Great viewing

[julieblackhart-82107 · 6/10 · 22 April 2019]

Loved this... Great humour... And plot... All the characters were easily believable, didn't want it to go off.. Tad slow at first.. Thankyou...

A Unique British Film

[bob-158-706946 · 8/10 · 12 November 2014]

A classic British comedy drama of social realism aka Ken Loach or Mike Leigh, but made in the style of an Allan Clarke film. It has beautiful light touches of tragedy mixed with the course humor of stand up, the subject matter of the movie. Suzanne Kendall, as the lead Stacey, gives a feisty performance as a supermarket girl who wants something better from life. Her support character mates are delightful parodies of Yorkshire hussies who provide the story with depth and warmth, and the one-liners Stacey uses in her act. The film is superbly shot and executed in the familiar English understated way that makes you realize that the clean cut frames are deliberate. Almost devoid of music, the film focuses on the use of words, the tool of the stand-up comic. A unique British film.

Almost has a story

[Phil_Chester · 19 May 2019]

Ironically, the main actor is an excellent stand-up and I have seen him on the circuit in London, but here he has terrible material to work with. The script has some potential to work as a sort of Cinderella love story, but it fails miserably. The film therefore simply becomes a mildly interesting ethnographic study of life in a frozen Northern small town. Probably not worth your time.