8/10
Very enjoyable
4 March 2006
What an enjoyable movie. Made by a woman about men and their emotions. She nails it every time. Stellar performance, as usual, from Peter Mullan. Always excellent. His previous films include "My name is Joe", "Young Adam", "Trainspotting", "Ordinary Decent Criminal", "Shallow Grave", "Criminal" and all the way back to "Riff Raff". Mixture of Scottish, English & Irish actors, but hardly noticeable as the accents were very reliable. Could easily have slipped over into sentimentality and while it went close to the edge, stayed the course. All in all a well made, entertaining movie. Will be reminiscent of "The Full Monty", although far superior.
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